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PREFACE 



IN placing before the members of the Chris- 
tian Endeavor and Epworth League these 
" Gleanings" to be read or repeated in 
the meeting, the compiler trusts that the beauty 
of style and language may aid in retaining in 
the memory these noble sentiments, which 
under the blessing of the Master may promote 
spiritual growth and faithful service. 

W. J. S. 



PROSE SELECTIONS. 



Henry Drummond. 
John Ruskin. 

Frederick W. Robertson. 
Charles Kingsley. 
Thomas X Kempis. 
George MacDonald. 
Frederick W. Farrar. 
Phillips Brooks. 



HENRY DRUMMOND. 



i 

If a man does not exercise his arm he de- 
velops no biceps muscle ; and if a man does 
not exercise his soul he acquires no muscle in 
his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of 
moral fibre, nor beauty of spiritual growth. 

2 

Become pure in heart. The pure in heart 
shall see God. Here, then, is one avenue for 
soul culture — the avenue, through purity of 
heart, to the spiritual seeing of God. 

3 

He who loves will rejoice in the Truth ; not 
in this church's doctrine or in that, but " in the 
Truth." He will accept only what is real ; he 
will strive to get at facts; he will search for 
Truth with an humble and unbiased mind, and 
cherish whatever he finds at any sacrifice. 

4 

There is only one thing greater than happi- 
ness in this world, and that is holiness, and it 
is not in our keeping ; but what God has put in 
our power is the happiness of those about us, 
and that is largely to be secured by our being 
kind to them. 5 



6 HENR Y DR UMMOND. 



5 

Have you ever noticed how much of Christ's 
life was spent in doing kind things ? 

6 

I wonder why it is we are not kinder than we 
are ! How much the world needs it. How 
easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. 
How infallibly it is remembered. How super- 
abundantly it pays itself back — for there is no 
debtor in the world so honorable as love. 

7 

There is no happiness in having and getting, 
but only in giving . . . half the world is on the 
wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. 
8 

I shall pass through this world but once. Any 
good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any 
kindness that I can show to any human being, 
let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect 
it, for I shall not pass this way again. 

9 

Do not grudge the hand that is moulding the 
still too shapeless image within you. It is grow- 
ing more beautiful, though you see it not, and 
every touch of temptation may add to its per- 
fection. Therefore keep in the midst of life. 
Be among men, and among things, and among 
trouble, and difficulties, and obstacles. 



HENR Y DR UMMOND. 7 



10 

Contemplate the love of Christ, and you will 
love. Stand before that mirror, reflect Christ's 
character, and you will be changed into the 
same image from tenderness to tenderness. 
There is no other way. You cannot love to 
order. 

11 

We love others, we love everybody, we love 
our enemies, because He first loved us. And 
that is how the love of God melts down the 
unlovely heart in man, and begets in him the 
new creature, who is patient and humble and 
gentle and unselfish. 

12 

Fruit-bearing without Christ is not an im- 
probability, but an impossibility. As well ex- 
pect the natural fruit to flourish without air and 
heat, without soil and sunshine. 

13 

Take into your new sphere of labor, where 
you mean also to lay down your life, that sim- 
ple charm, Love, and your life-work must suc- 
ceed. You can take nothing greater, you need 
take nothing less. It is not worth while going 
if you take anything less. 



8 HENR Y DR UMMOND. 



14 

He that would be great among you, said 
Christ, let him serve. He that would be happy, 
let him remember that there is but one way- 
it is more blessed, it is more happy, to give than 
to receive. 

15 

Our companionship with Him, like all true 
companionships, is a spiritual communion. All 
friendship, all love, human and Divine, is purely 
spiritual. It was after He was risen that He in- 
fluenced the disciples most. 

16 

Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and 
we rise to breast them ; but it is the petty fric- 
tion of our everyday life with one another, the 
jar of business or of work, the discord of the 
domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, 
the crossing of our will, or the taking down of 
our conceit, which makes inward peace impos- 
sible. 

17 

The final test of religion at that great Day is 
not religiousness, but Love ; not what I have 
done, not what I have believed, not what I have 
achieved, but how I have discharged the com- 
mon charities of life. 



HENR Y DR UMMOND. 9 



18 

The kingdom of God is not going to religious 
meetings and hearing strange religious experi- 
ences : the kingdom of God is doing what is 
right — living at peace with all men, being filled 
with joy in the Holy Ghost. 

19 

To become like Christ is the only thing in 
this life worth caring for, the thing before which 
every ambition is folly, and all lower achieve- 
ment vain. Those only who make this quest 
the supreme desire and passion of their lives 
can even begin to hope to reach it. 

20 

Christ's invitation to the weary and heavy- 
laden is a call to begin life over again upon a 
new principle — upon His own principle. 
" Watch my way of doing things," He says. 
" Follow me. Take life as I take it. Be meek 
and lowly, and you will find rest." 

21 

The well-defined spiritual is not only the 
highest life, but it is also the most easily lived. 
The whole cross is more easily carried than the 
half. It is the man who tries to make the best 
of both worfds who makes nothing of either. 
And he who seeks to serve two masters misses 
the benediction of both. 



HENR Y DRUMMOND. 



22 

The immortal soul must give itself to some- 
thing that is immortal. And the only immortal 
things are these : " Now abideth faith, hope, 
love, but the greatest of these is love." 

23 

You will find, as you look back upon your 
life, that the moments that stand out, the mo- 
ments when you have really lived, are the 
moments when you have done things in the 
spirit of love. 

24 

What a noble gift it is, the power of playing 
upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing 
them to lofty purposes and holy deeds. 

25 

To become like Christ is the only thing in the 
world worth caring for, the thing before which 
every ambition is folly, and lower achievement 
vain. 

26 

Patience, kindness, generosity, humility, cour- 
tesy, unselfishness, good-temper, guilelessness, 
sincerity— these make up the supreme gift, the 
stature of the perfect man. 



HENR Y DR UMMOND . 



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27 

Just because God worketh in him, as the evi- 
dence and triumph of it, the true child of God 
works out his own salvation — works it out, 
having really received it, not as a light thing, a 
superfluous labor, but with fear and trembling, 
as a reasonable and indispensable service. 

28 

Storms and winds and calms are not acci- 
dents, but are brought about by antecedent. 
Rest and Peace are but calms in man's inward 
nature, and arise through causes as definite and 
as inevitable. 

29 

Do not resent temptation ; do not be per- 
plexed because it seems to thicken round you 
more and more, and ceases neither for effort, 
nor for agony, nor prayer. That is your prac- 
tice which God appoints you, and it is having 
its work in making you patient and humble 
and generous and unselfish and kind and 
courteous. 



JOHN RUSKIN. 



30 

He chooses work for every creature which 
will be delightful to them, if they do it simply 
and humbly. He gives us always strength 
enough, and sense enough for what He wants 
us to do ; if we tire ourselves or puzzle our- 
selves, it is our own fault. 

3* 

It may be proved with much certainty that 
God intends no man to live in this world with- 
out working, but it seems to me no less evident 
that He intends every man to be happy in his 
work. 

32 

The moment that, in our pride of heart, we 
refuse to accept the condescension of the 
Almighty, and desire Him, instead of stooping 
to hold our hands, to rise up before us into His 
glory, God takes us at our word ; He rises into 
His own invisible and inconceivable majesty ; 
He goes forth on ways which are not our ways ; 
and retires into thoughts which are not our 
thoughts ; and we are left alone, and presently 
we say in our vain hearts, w There is no God." 
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JOHN RUSK IN. 



33 

There is nothing so small but we may honor 
Him by asking God's guidance of it, or insult 
Him by taking it into our own hands; and 
what is true of the Deity is equally true of His 
Revelation. We use it most reverently when 
most habitually; our insolence is in ever acting 
without reference to it ; our honoring of it is in 
its universal application. 

34 

You know that to give alms is nothing unless 
you give thought also ; and that therefore it is 
written, not "blessed is he that feedeth the 
poor," but " blessed is he that considereth the 
poor." A little thought and a little kindness 
are often worth more than a great deal of 
money. 

35 

It is clearly necessary from the beginning to 
the end of time that God's way of revealing 
Himself to His creatures should be a simple 
way, which all those creatures may understand. 

36 

You can no more filter your mind into purity 
than you can compress it into calmness ; you 
must keep it pure if you would have it pure ; 
and throw no stones into it if you would have 
it quiet. 



JOHN RUSKIN. 



37 

It is no use for men to think to appear great 
by working fast, dashing, and scrawling. The 
thing they do must be great and honest, cost 
what time it may. 

38 

Degrees infinite of lustre there must always 
be but the weakest among us has a gift, how- 
ever seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, 
and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to 
the race forever. 

39 

I believe the first test of a truly great man is 
his humility. I do not mean, by humility, doubt 
of his own power, or hesitation in speaking his 
opinions; but a right understanding of the 
relation between what he can do and say and 
the rest of the world's sayings and doings. All 
great men not only know their business, but 
usually know that they know it ; only they do 
not think any better of themselves on that 
account. 

40 

Tn general pride is at the bottom of all great 
mistakes. All the other passions do occasional 
good, but wherever pride puts in its word, 
everything goes wrong, and what it might be 
desirable to do quietly and innocently, it is 
morally dangerous to do proudly. 



JOHN RUSK IN. 



15 



4i 

Let us not forget that if honor be for the 
dead gratitude can only be for the living. Let 
it not displease men that they are bidden, amid 
the tumult and dazzle of their busy life, to listen 
to the few voices, and watch for the few lamps, 
which God has toned and lighted to charm and 
guide them, that they may not learn their sweet- 
ness by their silence nor their light by their 
decay. 

42 

It is not intended that he should look away 
from the place he lives in now, and cheer him- 
self with the thoughts of the place he is to live 
in next ; but that he should look stoutly into 
this world, in faith that if he does his work 
well here, some good to others or himself will 
come of it hereafter. 

43 

Man's use and function is to be the witness 
of the glory of God, and to advance that glory 
by his reasonable obedience and resultant hap- 
piness. 

44 

I believe that the root of almost every schism 
and heresy from which the Christian Church 
has ever suffered has been the effort of men to 
earn rather than to receive their salvation. 



JOHN RUSKIN. 



45 

God will put up with a great many things in 
the human heart, but there is one thing He 
will not put up with in it— a second place. He 
who offers God a second place otters Him no 
place. 

46 

Do not think it wasted time to submit your- 
self to any influence which may bring upon you 
any noble feeling. 

47 

Are you rightly happy? Not in thinking 
what you have done yourself; not in your own 
pride ; not in your own birth ; not in your own 
being, or your own will, but in looking at God ; 
watching what He does, what He is, and obeying 
His law and yielding yourself to His will. 

48 

There is one Priest who passes not by on the 
other side. The longer I live the more clearly 
I see how all souls are in His hand— the mean 
and the great. Fallen on the earth in their 
baseness or fading as the mists of the morning 
in their goodness ; still in the hand of the potter 
as the clay, and in the temple of their Master 
as the cloud. 



JOHN RUSK IN. 



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49 

Let this and every dawn of morning be to 
you as the beginning of life, and let every set- 
ting sun be to you as its close ; let every one 
of these short lives leave its record of some 
kindly thing done for others — some goodly 
strength or knowledge gained for yourselves. 

5o 

Upon what does the Christian argument for 
immortality really rest? It stands upon the 
pedestal on which the theologian rests the 
whole of historical Christianity — the Resurrec- 
tion of Jesus Christ. 

5i 

No one can get joy by merely asking for it. 
It is one of the ripest fruits of the Christian life, 
and like all fruits it must be grown., 

52 

Friendship is the nearest thing we know to 
what religion is. God is love, and to make 
religion akin to friendship, is simply to give it 
the highest expression conceivable by man. 

53 

In whatever is an object of life, in whatever 
may be infinitely and for itself desired, we may be 
sure there is something of divine, for God will not 
make anything an object of life to His creatures 
which does not point to or partake of Himself. 
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JOHN RUSKIN. 



54 

The good work of the world is done either in 
pure and unvexed instinct of duty ; or else, and 
better, it is cheerful and helpful doing of what 
the hand finds to do, in surety that at the even- 
ing-time whatsoever is right the Master will 
give. 

55 

It is not our part to look hardly, nor to look 
always, to the character or the deeds of men, 
but to accept from all of them, and to hold fast 
that which we can prove good, and feel to be 
ordained for us. 

56 

Do not think of your faults, still less of others' 
faults ; in every person who comes near you 
look for what is good and strong ; honor that, 
rejoice in it, and, as you can, imitate it, and 
your faults will drop off like dead leaves, when 
their time comes. 

57 

Now, therefore, see that no day passes m 
which you do not make yourself a somewhat 
better creature ; and, in order to do that, find 
out first what you are now. Do not think 
vaguely about it ; take pen and paper, and write 
down as accurate a description of yourself as 
you can, with the date to it. If you dare not do 
so, find out why you dare not. 



JOHN R US KIN. 



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58 

These two characters — of humility, and joy 
under trial — are exactly those which most defi- 
nitely distinguish the Christian from the Pagan 
spirit. Whatever virtue the Pagan possessed 
was rooted in pride and fruited with sorrow. 
But the Christian virtue is rooted in self- 
debasement, and strengthened under suffering 
by gladness of hope. 

59 

There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but 
that it may be done to a great purpose, and en- 
nobled therefor ; nor is any purpose so great 
but that slight actions may help it, and may be 
so done as to help it much, most especially that 
chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. 

60 

High on the desert mountain, full described, 
still sits enthroned the tempter with his old 
promise — the kingdoms of this world, and all 
the glory of them. He still calls you to your 
labor, as Christ to your rest ; labor and sorrow, 
base desires, and evil hope. 



FRED. W. ROBERTSON. 



61 

He who feels his soul's dignity, knowing 
what he is and who, redeemed by God the Son 
and freed by God the Spirit, cannot cringe, 
nor pollute himself, nor be mean. 

62 

To live by trust in God, to do and say the 
right because it is lovely, to live by love, and 
not by fear— that is the life of a true, brave man. 

63 

Brother men, one act of charity will teach us 
more of the love of God than a thousand ser- 
mons. 

64 

Have you learnt the lesson of yesterday? or 
the infinite meaning of to-day? It has duties 
of its own ; they cannot be left until to-morrow. 
To-morrow will bring its own work. 

65 

To enter into the world, and there live firmly 
and fearlessly according to your own con- 
science, that is Christian greatness. 
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FRED. W. ROBERTSON. 



66 

Remember this frail, evil, weak humanity of 
ours, these hearts that yield to almost every 
gust of temptation, the Son of man hoped for 
them. 

67 

How to lead the life of Christ, who shrunk 
from no scene of trying duty, and took the 
temptations of man's life as they came, or how 
even to lead the ordinary saintly life, winning 
experience from fall and permanent strength 
out of momentary weakness, and victory out of 
defeat— this is the problem. 

68 

Perhaps in practical life we could not give a 
better account of faith than by saying that it is, 
amidst much failure, having the heart to try 
again. 

Forget mistakes. Organize victory out ot 
mistakes. 

69 

There are people who would do great acts ; 
but because they wait for great opportunities, 
life passes, and the acts of love are not done at 
all. 

70 

You are as much the object of God's solici- 
tude as if none lived but yourself. 



FRED. W. ROBERTSON. 



7i 

The Redeemer gives rest by giving us the 
spirit and the power to bear the burden. 

72 

The greatest of our victories is to be won in 
passive endurance, in humbleness, in reliance, 
and in trust : we are to learn to be still, and 
know that He is God. 

73 

God does not promise a rest of inaction; 
neither that the thorns should be converted into 
roses ; nor that the trials of life shall be removed. 

74 

The only touch that reaches God is that of 
faith : heart to heart, soul to soul, mind to mind, 
only so do we come in actual contact with God. 

75 

There is not a single throb in a single human 
bosom that does not thrill at once with more 
than electric speed up to the heart of God. 
76 

The keen edge of God's pruning knife cuts 
sheer through. No weak tenderness stops Him 
whose love seeks goodness, not comfort, for 
His servants. 



FRED. W. ROBERTSON. 23 



77 

If you aspire to be a son of consolation, if 
you would pass through the intercourse of daily 
life with the delicate tact which never inflicts 
pain, you must be content to pay the price of 
the costly education. Like Him, you must 
suffer being tempted. 

78 

Let him force himself to abound in small 
offices of kindness, affectionateness, by and by 
he will feel them become the habit of his soul. 

79 

Perfection through suffering, that is the doc- 
trine of the Cross. There is love in that law. 
Trial is not the mark of an angry God ; it is the 
evidence of deepest parental love. 

80 

Life passes, work is permanent. Youth goes, 
mind decays. That which is done remains. 
Through ages, through eternity, what you have 
done for God, that, and that only, you are. 
Deeds never die. 

81 

If God's Spirit be in you, be confident, be 
humble ; rejoice with trembling, but still with 
unshaken trust in coming blessedness. 



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FRED. W. ROBERTSON. 



82 



God becomes a living God, a reality, a home 
when once we feel that we are_ helpless and 
hopeless in this world without Him. 



83 

When a man has learned to know the infinite 
love of God in Christ to him, then he ^covers 
something which will not elude his ho d, and 
an affection which will not grow cold; for the 
comparison of God's long-suffering and re- 
peated pardon with his own heartless ingrati- 
tude convinces him that it is an unchangeable 
love. 

84 

He who has lived with Christ will find Christ 
near in death. If you choose duty-God-it is 
not so difficult to die. 

85 

Without real trial, how soon we find rust 
upon our arms and sloth upon our souls and 
the paltry difficulties of common life weigh like 
chains upon us, instead of being brushed away 
like cobwebs. 



FRED. W. ROBERTSON. 



25 



86 

Opportunities for doing greatly seldom occur ; 
life is made up of infinitesimals. If you would 
compute the sum of happiness in any given day, 
you will find it was composed of small atten- 
tions, kind looks, which made the heart swell, 
and stirred into health that sour, rancid film of 
misanthropy which is apt to coagulate on the 
stream of our inward life as surely as we live 
in heart apart from our fellow-creatures. 



87 

Let self die with Christ, and with Him rise to 
a life of holiness ; and then, whether you are 
a minister or ministered to, you need not care 
what discussions may arise, nor how men may 
dispute your Christianity or deny your share in 
the Gospel ; you stand upon a rock. 



88 

What we want is life, spiritual life, within us ; 
to know in all things the truth of God and to 
speak it ; to feel in all things the will of God 
and do it ; and to give us that, to impart that 
spirit to us, is the mercy and the love of God. 



FRED. W. ROBERTSON. 



89 

There are moments when we seem to tread 
above the earth. They do not come when the 
world would have said that all around you was 
glad ; but it was when outward trials had shaken 
the soul to its very centre that there came from 
Him " grace to help in time of need." 



CHARLES KINGSLEY. 



90 

No rational man ever heard a bird sing with- 
out feeling that the bird was happy, and if God 
made that bird He made it to be happy, and 
He takes pleasure in its happiness, though no 
human ear should ever hear its song, no human 
heart should ever share its joy. 

What can a man do more than die for his 
countrymen? Live for them. It is a longer 
work, and therefore a more difficult and nobler 
one. 

92 

If thou art living a righteous and useful life, 
doing thy duty orderly and cheerfully where 
God has put thee, then thou in thy humble 
place art humbly copying the everlasting har- 
mony and melody which is in heaven. 

93 

" Honor all men." Every man should be hon- 
ored as God's image, in the sense in which 
No vales says — that we touch Heaven when we 
lay our hand upon a human body ! 

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28 CHARLES KINGSLEY. 



94 

The hearts and minds of the sick, the poor, 
the sorrowing, the truly human, all demand a 
living God who has revealed Himself in living 
acts ; a God who has taught mankind by facts, 
not left them to discover Him by theories and 
sentiments ; a Judge, a Father, a Saviour, an 
Inspirer. 

95 

I believe that every step I take, every person 
I meet, every thought which comes into my 
mind— which is not sinful— comes and happens 
by the perpetual Providence of God, watching 
forever with Fatherly care over me, and each 
separate thing that He has made. 

96 

Learn what feelings every object in Nature 
expresses, but do not let them mould the tone of 
your mind; else, by allowing a melancholy day 
to make you melancholy, you worship the crea- 
ture more than the Creator. 

97 

Philamon had gone forth to see the world, 
and he had seen it ; and he had learnt that 
God's kingdom was not a kingdom of fanatics 
yelling for a doctrine, but of willing, loving, 
obedient hearts. 



CHARLES KINGSLEY. 29 



98 

What we wish to do for our fellow-creatures 
we must do first for ourselves. We can give 
nothing save what God has already given us. 
We must become good before we can make 
them good, and wise before we can make them 
wise. 

99 

We should preach God's glory day by day, 
not by words only, often not by words at all, 
but by our conduct. If you wish your neighbors 
to see what God is like, let them see what He 
can make you like. Nothing is so infectious as 
example. 

100 

Have patience with Him. Has He not had 
patience with you ? And therefore have patience 
with all men and things, and then you will 
rise again in His good time the stouter for your 
long battle. 

101 

There is something higher than happiness. 
There is blessedness ; the blessedness of being 
good and doing good, of being right and doing 
right. That blessedness we may have at all 
times ; we may be blest even in our anxiety and 
in our sadness ; we may be blest, even as the 
martyrs of old were blest, in agony and death. 



3 o CHARLES KINGSLEY. 



102 

Let us go forward. God leads us. Though 
blind, shall we be afraid to follow? I do not 
see my way ; I do not care to, but I know that 
He sees His way, and that I see Him. 

103 

What blessings we have ! Let us work in 
return for them— not under the enslaving sense 
of paying off an infinite debt, but with the de- 
light of gratitude, glorying that we are God's 
debtors. 

104 

Anything is good for us, however unpleasant 
it may be, which draws us from the only real 
misery, which is sin and selfishness, to the 
only true happiness, which is the everlasting 
life of Christ, a pure, loving, just, generous, use- 
ful life of goodness. 

105 

Provided we attain at last to the truly heroic 
and divine life, which is the life of virtue, it will 
matter little to us by what wild and weary 
ways, or through what painful and humiliating 
processes we have arrived thither. 



CHARLES KINGS LEY. 31 



106 

Honor must grow out of humility ; freedom 
must grow out of discipline ; sure conquest 
must be born of heavy struggles ; righteous joy 
out of righteous sorrow ; pure laughter out of 
pure tears ; true strength out of the true knowl- 
edge of our own weakness ; sound peace of 
mind out of sound contrition. 

107 

The Divine Master knows that all is right, 
and how to train us, and whither to lead us ; 
though we know not and need not know, save 
this, that the path by which He is leading each 
of us, if we will but obey and follow step by 
step, leads us to everlasting life. 

108 

Being forced to work, and forced to do your 
best, will breed in you temperance and self- 
control, diligenee and strength of will, cheer- 
fulness and content, and a hundred virtues 
which the idle will never know. 

109 

Think less of what you feel, even of trying to 
be anything. Look out of yourself at God. 
Pray and praise, and God will give you His 
Spirit often when you feel most dull. 



CHARLES KINGS LEY. 



no 

There is but one thing which you have to 
fear in earth or heaven— being untrue to your 
better selves, and therefore untrue to God. If 
you will not do the thing you know to be right 
and say the thing you know to be true, then, 
indeed, you are weak. You are a coward ; you 
desert God. 



in 

Ah ! that we could believe that God is love, 
and that he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in 
God and God in him. Then we should have 
no need to be told to cultivate sweetness and 
light, for they seem to us the only temper which 
could make life tolerable in any corner of the 
universe. 



112 

Let us look forward with quiet certainty of 
hope day and night, believing, though we can 
see but little day, that all this tangled web will 
resolve itself into golden threads of twined, har- 
monious life, guiding both us and those we love 
together through this life to that resurrection 
oAhe flesh when we shall at last know the 
reality and fullness of life and love. 



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113 

Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temptation, 
and do not weaken and distract yourself by 
looking forward to things which you cannot 
see, and could not understand if you saw them. 
Enough for you that the God for whom you 
fight is just and merciful, for He rewardeth 
every man according to his work. 

114 

Why did Christ take up the cross ? Not for 
affliction's sake, not for the cross's sake, as if 
suffering were a good thing in itself. No. But 
that He might thereby do good. That the 
world through Him might be saved. That He 
might do good at whatever cost to Himself. 

115 

That is not faith to see God only in what is 
strange and rare ; but this is faith, to see God in 
what is most common and simple, to know God's 
greatness, not so much from disorder as from 
order, not so much from those strange sights in 
which God seems (but only seems) to break 
His laws, as from those common ones in which 
He fulfills His laws, 



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116 

Chivalry— an idea which, perfect or imperfect, 
God forbid that mankind should ever forget till 
it has become the possession, as it is the God- 
given right, of the poorest slave that ever 
trudged on foot, and every collier lad shall have 
become — 

" A very gentle, perfect knight." 



117 

Make a rule, and pray to God to help you to 
keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night 
without being able so say, " I have made one 
human being at least a little wiser, a little hap- 
pier, or a little better this day." You will find it 
easier than you think, and pleasanter. 



118 



Duty be it in a small matter or a great, is 
duty still; the command of Heaven; the eldest 
voice of God. And it is only they who are 
faithful in a few things who will be faithful over 
many things; only they who do Jhdr duty m 
everyday and- trivial matters who will fulfill 
them on great occasions. 



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119 

If that name, Father, means anything, it must 
mean that He will not turn away from His wan- 
dering child in a way in which you would be 
ashamed to turn away from yours. If there be 
pity, lasting affection, patience in man, they 
must have come from Him. Believe that God 
possesses them a million times more fully than 
any human being. 

120 

The men whom I have seen succeed best in 
life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, 
who went about their business with a smile on 
their faces, and took the changes and chances 
of this mortal life like men, facing rough and 
smooth alike as it came, and so found the truth 
of the old proverb, that " good times and bad 
times and all times pass over." 



THOMAS A KEMPIS. 



121 



My son, thou oughtest with all diligence to 
endeavor, that in every place and action, and 
in all outward business, thou be inwardly free, 
and thoroughly master of thyself; and that all 
things be under thee, and not thou under them. 



122 



But of the words and deeds of others judge 
nothing rashly; neither do thou entangle thy- 
self with things not entrusted unto thee. Thus 
it may come to pass that thou mayest be little 
or seldom disturbed. 

123 

Oh ! sweet and delightful service of God, by 
which a man is made truly free and holy. 
124 

Fight like a good soldier: and if thou fall 
sometimes through frailty, take again greater 
strength than before, trusting in my more 
abundant grace: and take heed of vain pleas- 
ing of thyself, and of pride. 
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125 

Lift up thy face therefore unto heaven ; be- 
hold, I and all my saints with me, who in this 
world had great conflicts, do now rejoice, are 
now comforted, now secure, now at rest, and 
they shall remain with me everlastingly in the 
Kingdom of the Father. 

126 

And the purer the eye of the intent is, with 
so much the more constancy doth a man pass 
through the several kinds of storms which 
assail him. 

127 

For when the grace of God cometh to a man, 
then he is made able for all things. And when 
it goeth away, then he is poor and weak, and 
as it were left only for affliction. 

128 

A man must strive long and mightily within 
himself before he can learn to fully master him- 
self, and to draw his whole heart unto God. 

129 

The devil sleepeth not, neither is the flesh 
as yet dead ; therefore cease not to prepare thy- 
self to the battle ; for on thy right hand and on 
thy left are enemies who never rest. 



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130 

God protecteth the humble and delivereth 
him: the humble He loveth and comforteth ; 
unto the humble man He inclineth Himself; 
unto the humble He giveth great grace; and 
after His humiliation He raiseth him to glory. 

131 

God alone is everlasting, and of infinite great- 
ness filling all creatures ; the comfort of the 
soul, and the true joy of the heart. 

132 

The glory of the good is in their conscience, 
and not in the tongues of men. The gladness 
of the just is of God, and in God ; and their 
joy is of the truth. 

133 

There is no true liberty nor right joy but in 
the fear of God accompanied with a good con- 
science. 

134 

O how wise and happy is he that now 
laboreth to be such a one in his life as he will 
desire to be found at the hour of death. 

135 

Be careful also to avoid with great diligence 
those things in thyself which do commonly dis- 
please thee in others. 



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136 

If we would endeavor like brave men to 
stand in the battle, surely we should feel the 
assistance of God from Heaven. For He who 
giveth us occasion to fight, to the end we may 
get the victory, is ready to succor those that 
fight, and that trust in His grace. 

137 

The beginning of all temptation is incon- 
stancy of mind, and small confidence in God. 

138 

Some are kept from great temptations, and 
in small ones which do daily occur are over- 
come : to the end that, being humble, they may 
never presume on themselves in great matters 
while they are worsted in so small things. 

139 

This ought to be our endeavor, to conquer 
ourselves and daily wax stronger, and to grow 
in holiness. 

140 

Consult with him that is wise and of sound 
judgment, and seek to be instructed by one 
better than thyself, rather than to follow thine 
own inventions. 



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141 

Glory not in wealth if thou have it, nor in 
friends because they are powerful; but in God 
who giveth all things and who desireth to give 
thee Himself above all things. 

142 

Be not therefore too confident of thine own 
opinion ; but be willing to hear the judgment 
of others. 

• 143 

Whosoever, then, would fully and feelingly 
understand the words of Christ must endeavor 
to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. 

144 

Endeavor, therefore, to withdraw thy heart 
from the love of visible things, and to turn thy- 
self to the invisible. 

145 

It is great wisdom and perfection to think 
nothing of ourselves, and to think always well 
and highly of others. 

146 

Many words do not satisfy the soul ; but a 
good life comforteth the mind and a pure con- 
science giveth great confidence toward God. 



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147 

For God weigheth more with how much love 
a man worketh than how much he doeth. He 
doeth much that loveth much. 

148 

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the 
defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 
soever they be : for that thyself also hast many 
failings which must be borne with by others. 

149 

In the morning fix thy good purpose ; and at 
night examine thyself what thou hast done, how 
thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and 
thought ; for in these perhaps thou hast often- 
times offended both God and thy neighbor. 

150 

Better is it to have a small portion of good 
sense, with humility and a slender understand- 
ing, than great treasures of science with vain 
self-complacency. 



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151 

All about us, in earth and air, wherever eye 
or ear can reach, there is a power ever breath- 
ing itself forth in signs, now in a daisy, now in 
a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset ; a power that 
holds constant and sweetest relation with the 
dark and silent world within us ; that the same 
God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are 
the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about 
us ; inside the Spirit ; outside the Word. 

152 

It is not great battles alone that build up the 
world's history, nor great poems alone that 
make the generations grow. There is a still, 
small rain from heaven that has more to do 
with the blessedness of nature, and of human 
nature, than the mightiest earthquake or the 
loveliest rainbow. 
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153 

Each of us is a distinct flower or tree in the 
spiritual garden of God— precious each for his- 
own sake in the eyes of Him who is even now 
making us— each of us watered and shone 
upon and filled with life, for the sake of His 
flower, His completed being, which will blossom 
out of Him at last to the glory and pleasure of 
the Great Gardener. 

154 

Brothers and sisters, all good men and true 
women, let the Master seat us where He will 
Until He says, " Come up higher," let us sit at 
the foot of the board, or stand behind, honored 
in waiting upon His guests. All that kind of 
thing is worth nothing in the Kingdom ; and 
nothing will be remembered of us but the Mas- 
ter's judgment. 

155 

Partakers thus of the divine nature, resting in 
that perfect All-in-all in whom our nature is 
eternal, too, we walk without fear, full of hope 
and courage, and strength to do His will, wait- 
ing for the endless good which He is always 
giving as fast as He can get us to take it in. 



GEORGE MacDONALD. 



156 

God is tender— just like the Prodigal Son's 
father — only this difference, that God has mill- 
ions of prodigals, and never gets weary of 
going out to meet them and welcome them 
back, every one as if he were the only prodigal 
son He ever had. 

157 

How often do we look upon God as our last 
and feeblest resource? We go to Him be- 
cause we have nowhere else to go. And then 
we learn that the storms of life have driven us 
not on the rocks but into the desired haven. 

158 

It may be good for you to go hungry or bare- 
foot ; but it must be utter death to lose faith in 
God. We do not know why here and there a 
man may be left to die of hunger, but I do be- 
lieve that they who wait on the Lord shall not 
lack any good. What it may be good to de- 
prive a man of till he knows and acknowledges 
whence it comes, it may be still better to give 
him, when he has learned that every good and 
every perfect gift is from above, and cometh 
down from the Father of Lights. 



GEORGE MacDONALD. 



159 

With what a power of life and hope does a 
woman — young or old, I do not care— with a 
face like the morning, a dress like the spring, a 
bunch of wild flowers in her hand, with the dew 
on them, and perhaps in her eye, too — I do not 
object to that— that is sympathy, not the wor- 
ship of darkness — with what a message from 
nature and life does she, looking death in the face 
with a smile, dawn upon the vision of an invalid ? 
160 

We are like to Him with whom there is no 
past or future, with whom a day is as a thousand 
years, and a thousand years as one day, when 
we do our work in the great present, leaving 
both past and future to Him, to whom they are 
ever present, and fearing nothing because He 
is in our future as much as in the past, as much 
as, and far more than, we can feel Him to be in 
our present. 

161 

At whatever time death may arrive, or in 
whatever condition the man may be at the time, 
it comes as the best and only good that can at 
that moment reach him. I think of death as 
the first pulse of the new strength, shaking 
itself free from the old moldy remnants of 
earth -garments, that it may begin in freedom 
the new life that grows out of the old. 



GEORGE MacDONALD, 



162 

Every blessed time a man bethinks himself 
that he has been forgetting his high calling, and 
sends up to the Father a prayer for aid ; every 
time a man resolves that what he has been 
doing, he will do no more ; every time that the 
love of God, or the feeling of truth, rouses a 
man to look, first up at the light, then down on 
the skirts of his own garment— that moment a 
divine resurrection is wrought upon the earth. 

163 

Don't strike your colors to the morrow ; for 
thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
There's just as many good days as bad days ; 
as much fair weather as foul in the days to 
come. And if a man keeps up heart, he's all 
the better for it, and none the worse when the 
evil day does come. 

164 

What God may hereafter require of you, you 
must not give yourself the least trouble about. 
Everything He gives you to do, you must do as 
well as ever you can, and that is the best possi- 
ble preparation for what He may want you to 
do next. If people would but do what they 
have to do, they would always find themselves 
ready for what came next. 



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165 

There is one who bringeth light out of dark- 
ness, joy out of sorrow, humility out of wrong. 
Back to the Father's house we go with the sor- 
rows and sins which we, instead of inheriting 
the earth, gathered and heaped upon our weary 
shoulders, and a different Elder Brother from 
that angry one who would not receive the poor 
swine-humbled prodigal, takes the burden from 
our shoulders, and leads us into the presence 
of the Good. 

166 

If I do what I may in earnest, I need not 
mourn if I work no great work on the earth. 
To help the growth of a thought that struggles 
toward the light ; to brush with gentle hand the 
earth-stain from the white of one snow-drop — 
such be my ambition ! 

167 

The world will never be right till the mind 
of God is the measure of things, and the will of 
God the law of things. In the kingdom of 
Heaven nothing else is acknowledged. And 
till that kingdom come, the mind and will of 
God must, with those who look for that king- 
dom, override every other way of feeling, 
thinking, and judging. 



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m 

The sight of the face of Jesus is, I think, what 
is meant by His glorious appearing, but it will 
come as a consequence of His spirit in us, not 
as a cause of that spirit in us. The pure in 
heart will see God. The seeing of Him will be 
the sign that we are like Him, for only by 
being like Him can we see Him as He is. 
169 

The simplest woman who tries not to judge 
her neighbor, or not to be anxious for the 
morrow, will better know what is best to know 
than the best-read bishop without the one 
simple out-going of his highest nature to do 
the will of Him who thus spoke. 

170 

To keep the upper windows of his mind open 
to the holy winds and pure lights of heaven ; 
and the side windows of tone, of speech, of be- 
havior open to the earth, to let forth upon his 
fellow-men the tenderness and truth which those 
upper influences bring forth in any reason ex- 
posed to their operation. 

171 

I should like to know a man who just minded 
his duty and troubled himself about nothing ; 
who did his own work, and did not interfere 
with God's. How nobly he would work— not 
working for reward, but because it was the will 
of God. 



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172 

To pass through the valley of the shadow of 
death is the way home, but only thus, as all 
changes have hitherto led us nearer this home, 
the knowledge of God, so this greatest of out- 
ward changes — for it is but an outward change 
— will surely usher us into a region where there 
will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in 
heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all. 

173 

We are like to Him with whom there is no 
past or future, with whom a day is as a thousand 
years, and a thousand years as a day, when we 
live with large, bright, spiritual eyes, doing our 
work in the great present, and fearing nothing, 
because He is in our future as much as He is 
in our past, as much as and far more than we 
can feel Him to be in our present. 

174 

True, we can never be at peace until we have 
performed the highest duty of all — till we have 
arisen, and gone to our Father ; but the per- 
formance of smaller duties, yes, even of the 
smallest, will do more to give us temporary re- 
pose, will act more as healthful anodynes, than 
the greatest joys that can come to us from any 
other quarter. 



GEORGE MacDONALD, 



175 

And the wind blew from the sunrise, made 
me hope in the God who first breathed in my 
nostrils the breath of life ; that He would fill me 
with His breath, His wind, His spirit, that I 
should think His thoughts, and live His life, 
finding therein my own life, only glorified in- 
finitely. 

176 

You take no thought of earnestness about the 
doing of your duty ; but you take thought of 
care lest God should not fulfill His part in the 
goings on in the world. A man's business is 
just to do his duty. God takes upon Himself 
the feeding and the clothing. 



177 

The one secret of life and development is 
not to devise and plan, but to fall in with the 
forces at work— to do every moment's duty 
aright-that being the part of the process 
allotted to us ; and let come— not what will, for 
there is no such thing— but what the Eternal 
Father wills for each of us, has intended in 
each of us from the first. 



GEORGE Mac DONALD. 



178 

You close your doors and brood over your 
own miseries, and the wrongs people have 
done you; whereas, if you would but open 
those doors, you might come out into the light 
of God's truth, and see that His heart is as 
clear as sunlight toward you. If you would but 
let Him teach you, you would find your per- 
plexities melt away like the snow in the spring, 
till you could hardly believe you ever felt them. 

179 

Fold the arms of thy faith, and wait in quiet- 
ness until the light goes up in the darkness. 
Fold the arms of thy faith, I say, but not of thy 
action; bethink thee of something that thou 
oughtest to do, and go and do it, if it be but the 
sweeping of a room, or the preparing of a meal, 
or a visit to a friend. Heed not thy feelings ; 
do thy work. 

180 

No one ever sounded the heights and depths 
of life and drew from it the teaching and bless- 
ing which it is capable of giving, without en- 
during suffering, sharp and real, as a part of it. 
The year is not all composed of summer days ; 
it has its long expanses of winter cold and 
gloom. 



GEORGE MacDONALD. 



181 

I do not believe that God lets the thread of 
my affairs go for six days and on the seventh 
takes it up for a moment. The so-called 
special providences are no exception to the 
rule ; they are common to all men, at all mo- 
ments. But it is a fact that God's care is more 
evident in some instances of it than others to 
the dim and often bewildered vision of hu- 
manity. Upon such instances men seize and 
call them providences. It is well that they can ; 
but it would be gloriously better if they could 
believe that the whole matter is one grand 
providence. 



FREDERICK W. FARRAR. 



182 

"Thou art not far from the kingdom of 
Heaven/' The doors of Paradise are open 
near you; you may breathe snatches of its 
odors ; you may catch echoes of its melodies ; 
you may feel, at times, the sweetness of its 
angel presences, the hovering of its angel 
wings. 

183 

He points us ... to the glorious company 
of the high and noble, of the pure and holy, to 
the white-robed, palm-bearing procession of 
happy human souls ; to those who have fought 
and conquered, to those who have wrestled and 
overcome. 

184 

There is one angel with whom we must not 
wrestle, whether we will or no, and whose 
power of curse or blessing we cannot alter — 
even the Angel of Death. We know not when 
he cometh, but as surely as the leaves of the 
forest, which last spring you saw so young and 

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FREDERICK W. FARRAR. 



green, in the rain of golden sunshine are now 
fading and falling around us, and being trodden 
down into the dishonored dust — so surely the 
generations of men are passing, so surely shall 
each one of us be carried among mourners to 
our last home. 

185 

In all hours of despondency, of means dis- 
proportionate, of opposition apparently over- 
whelming, the whisper comes to us, " Duties 
are thine," " Results are God's." See only that 
thine intent be good and pure, and the worst 
thou mayest safely leave in the hands of God. 

186 

The inward joy of the Christian, if brightest 
in the sunshine, is unquenched even in the 
storm. The true Christian, the perfect Chris- 
tian, the Saint of God, can be glad even in ad- 
versity, and rich in poverty, and calm in the 
prospect of death. He stands high above the 
n^ed of riches. 

187 

There is a Friend always with you, who, even 
in your loneliest moments, leaves you not alone. 
He is a Friend loving and true, nor is He weak 
as we are — that Presence, that Love, that 
Friend, is God in Christ. 



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188 

If we need any symbols to help us, there 
are symbols of transparent meaning; green 
meadows, where men may breathe God's fresh 
air, and see His golden light ; glorified cities 
. . . white robes, pure emblems of stainless in- 
nocence, the crown and the palm-branch, and 
the throne of serene self-mastery over our 
spiritual enemies ; and the golden harp, and 
the endless song — which do but speak of 
abounding happiness, in that form of it which 
is, of all others, the most innocent, the most 
thrilling, the most intense. 

189 

All the good' and true, all the pure and noble 
shall be there ; and all on earth who have ever 
been high and sweet and worthy, out of every 
tribe, and kindred, and nation, and language — 
ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands 
of thousands ! 

190 

Why should we be care-stricken? What 
business have we to be sad in the sunshine ? 
We have nothing to do with the past, nothing 
to do with the future ; we have to do with the 
present only, and that, even in the hour of 
trial, we are by God's grace strong enough to 
bear. 



FREDERICK W. FARRAR. 



191 

Do your best loyally and cheerfully, and 
suffer yourself to feel no anxiety or fear. Your 
times are in God's hands. He has assigned 
you your place. He will direct your paths. 
He will accept your efforts if they be faithful. 
He will bless your aims if they be for your 
soul's good. 

192 

Do not be troubled if, in spite of all that thou 
triest to do, the times are out of joint ; and 
things go wrong, and thou seemest to do no 
good. God made the world, not thou. He 
has patience, shouldest not thou have patience ? 
Even thy poor deeds cannot die. 

193 

Walk very humbly with your God. Struggle 
on if it be only inch by inch, till the rout is re- 
sistance and the resistance victory. I would 
not tell you do this, if you had to struggle un- 
aided—but it is not so-God is with you. For 
you Christ died. 

194 

Oh' reverence yourselves, encourage in 
yourselves, not as a feeling of pride, since it 
crushes all pride and annihilates a conceited 
self-satisfaction into a divine and modest hu- 
mility, but, as an incentive to all purity and to 



FREDERICK W. FARRAR. 57 



all praise, cherish in yourselves that thought of 
your exalted origin from God, and of that lofty 
destiny which may lead you through the grave 
and gate of death, to stand undazzled before 
His throne. 

195 

God puts into our hands the Book of Life, 
bright on every page, with open secrets, and 
we suffer it to drop out of our hands unread. 

196 

God has been very good to us : He has 
placed us in a fair world ; He has given us the 
delight in knowledge ; He has given us the 
charm of art; He has given us the glorious 
beauty of inanimate nature; He has written 
His love for us in large letters on the stars of 
heaven, and in the flowers of the spring. 

197 

It is the property of love to bind us closely to 
that which we love ; if we love the earth we are 
earthy ; the love of God makes us divine. 

198 

The true riches are health, and a pure heart 
and love of Christ, and love to man and a perfect 
trust in the sustaining providence of God, and 
a cheerful spirit, and a noble charity. 



58 FREDERICK W. FARRAR. 



199 

Knowledge is a vain thing only when it is 
sought out of unworthy motives and applied to 
selfish ends ; but it becomes noble and glorious 
when it is desired solely for man's benefit, and 
consecrated wholly to God's promise. 

200 

Do for one another all gentle acts of kindly 
courtesy ; above all, wash one another's feet by 
that best, sweetest, kindliest service of all, 
which is that each should help his friend or 
brother to draw daily a little nearer to God— to 
triumph daily a little more over human tempta- 
tions and human infirmities. 

201 

Love—" thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- 
self." Love, the test and condition of disciple- 
ship. . . . Love is greater than even Faith or 
Hope. Love is the fulfilling of the law. 

202 

It is not happiness, but it is something higher 
than happiness; it is stillness, it is assurance, it 
is satisfaction, it is peace ; the world can neither 
understand it, nor give it, nor take it away— 
it is something indescribable— it is the gift of 
God. 



FREDERICK W. FARRAR. 



203 

To fill a little space because God wills it ; to 
go on cheerfully with a petty round of little 
duties, little avocations ; to accept unmurmur- 
ingly a low position ; to be misunderstood, mis- 
represented, maligned, without complaint; to 
smile for the joys of others when the heart is 
aching; to banish all ambition, all pride, and 
all restlessness, in a single regard, to our Sa- 
viour's work ; he who does this for one hour is 
a greater hero than he who for one hour storms 
a breach, or for one day rushes forward un- 
daunted in the flaming front of shot and shell. 
204 

Let His, and not the example of the world, be 
our example ; so shall we attain the full height 
of our destiny ; so shall we, partakers of His 
immortality, after a godly life here, live with 
God hereafter, the tears wiped from our faces, 
the scars of sin and sorrow healed in our souls, 
not a little lower, but a little higher than the 
angels, crowned with a glory and honor which 
can never fade or be dimmed again. 

205 

Each day, each week, each month, each year 
is a new chance given you by God. A new 
chance, a new leaf, a new life — this is the 
golden, the unspeakable gift which each new 
day offers to you. 



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206 

Remember that if the opportunity for great 
deeds should never come, the opportunity for 
good deeds is renewed for you day by day. 
The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not 

the glory. 

& 207 

Study and love the works of God— they are 
better worth reading than the words of man— 
they will give you simpler tastes and purer 
pleasures; ... in happy moments they will 
make you happier ; in friendless moments they 
will give you companionship ; in troubled mo- 
ments they will give you peace. 

208 

The Bible teaches us its best lessons, when 
we search its pages as wise and humble 
learners ; when we judge of it by the truth 
which we learn from it, and not by the preju- 
dices and prepossessions which we bring to it 
when we seek in it the elements and bases of 
faith, not when we go to it for proving texts of 
doctrines which we already hold. 

209 

Fight against greed, fight against falsity, fight 
against faithlessness, and so you shall be ready 
for all God's work both now and any time here- 
after, until your Master gives you the signal 
that you may fall out of the ranks ... to yield 
your pure souls to your captain, Christ. 



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2IO 

Christ was victorious, through that self- 
renunciation through which alone victory can 
be won. And the moments of such honest 
struggle crowned with victory are the very 
sweetest and happiest the life of man can give. 



PHILLIPS BROOKS. 



211 

The real secret of life is to put ourselves into 
the power of the Eternal strength to know God 
our Father; . . . and then through Him to over- 
come One man's fight and another man's fight 
may be entirely different, and yet there is the 
same great fight for us all. May God grant us all 
to overcome and receive these certain promises. 

212 

Man stands separated from that life of God as 
it were by a great thick wall and every effort to 
put away his sin, to make himself a nobler and a 
purer man, is simply his beating at the inside of 
that door which stands between him and the life 
of God which he knows he ought to be living. 
God is forever trying upon His side of the wall 
to break away the great barrier that separates 
the sinner's life from Him. 

213 

Religion, the service of Christ, is not some- 
thing to be taken in in addition to your life ; it 
is your life. It is something which, when taken 
into your heart, shall glow in every action, so 
that your fellow-men shall say, " Lo, how he 

lives ! " 
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214 

If you will let Him walk with you in your 
streets, and sit with you in your offices, and be 
with you in your homes, and teach you in your 
churches, and abide with you as the Living 
Presence in your hearts, you, too, shall know 
what freedom is, and while you do your duties 
be above your duties ; and while you own your- 
selves the sons of men know you are the sons 
of God. 

215 

By the side of the young man just entering 
life there stands the Christ saying, Be pure, be 
wise, be strong, be independent ; rejoice in me 
and my appreciation. Serve the world, but do 
not be the servant of the world. Make the 
world your servant by helping the world in 
every way in which you can minister to its life. 
Be brave, be strong, be manly by my strength. 
216 

The meanest, the most humble life must live 
by the same high motives as the greatest and 
most splendid life. And so to every one, how- 
ever small may be the task, however full of 
drudgery may seem his duties, however circum- 
scribed his lot, it is possible either to overcome 
or to be overcome ; and if he overcomes, all 
these great promises shall come to the most 
humble and most limited of us all as truly as to 
the greatest and most enlarged. 



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217 

To help to establish those standards by which 
other people shall shape their lives, to help make 
the faith of other people who shall live in years 
after we are dead and forgotten, stronger, more 
capable of knowing the truth, more capable of 
doing right because we have lived, that is to sit 
with Jesus upon His throne and judge the world. 
Lost we shall be in the great multitude, but the 
standards of mankind shall be higher because 
of our faithful lives. 

218 

To earn- in ourselves the intense love of 
Jesus Christ, to find in Him the perpetual cor- 
rective of our actions, to do duty, not under the 
lash, but under the impulses of the soul— that is 
the hardest life, but the most blessed life, a man 
or woman can undertake. 

219 

Lift yourselves up to-day. Know yourselves 
the children of God, immortal in the Father's 
immortality, and you will do the same things 
on Easter Monday that you did Easter eve ; but 
they will be done by a nobler being, and there- 
fore they will be nobler things. 



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220 

Religion is not the simple fire-escape that you 
build in anticipation of a possible danger upon 
the outside of your dwelling, and leave there un- 
til danger comes. But religion is the house in 
which we live ; it is the table at which we sit ; it is 
the fireside to which we draw near, the room that 
arches its graceful and familiar presence over us. 
221 

The nature of God, teeming with beautiful 
relations to the nature of man, is always con- 
verting the human soul, turning it from that way 
in which it ought not to go and turning it into 
that way in which it ought to go. 

222 

Let your souls rest in peace in God. Only be 
sure it is really He on whom you rest. He is 
continually caring for your souls, and will not 
let you rest in absolute torpor. You cannot 
rest too tenderly, too peacefully, on the love of 
God, if only it is really God's love. 

223 

Read your Bible. If you can read it with 
your soul as well as with your eyes, there shall 
come the Christ there walking in Palestine. At 
one word of prayer, as you bend over the illu- 
minated page, there shall lift up the body-being 
of that Christ and come down through the cen- 
turies, and be your helper at your side. 



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224 

Take every experience of life, take every joy 
of life : a man either becomes the slave of joy 
and prosperity, being made self-conceited by it, 
or he becomes the master of his prosperity and 
joy, compelling it to render richness to his char- 
acter, to mellow his whole life into a fuller and 
deeper relationship to God. 

225 

True greatness consists in being the best and 
doing the best that our nature is capable of. It 
is making the most of ourselves. It is the full, 
complete development of all our powers. 
226 

Do you want your life multiplied by the thou- 
sand million, so that all men shall be like you, 
or don't you shudder at the thought, don't you 
give hope that other men are better than you 
are ? Keep that fear, but only that it may be the 
food of a diviner hope, that all the world may 
see in you the thing that man was meant to be, 
the Christ. 

227 

It belongs to Christ in men first to prove that 
man may be a Christian and yet do business ; 
and in the second place to show how a man, as 
he becomes the greater Christian, shall purify 
and lift up the business that he does and make 
it the worthy occupation of the Son of God. 



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228 

Pray, the manliest thing that a man can do, 
the fastening of his life to the eternal, the drink- 
ing of his thirsty soul out of the great fountain 
of life. 

229 

There are times when everything in God's 
dealings with us seems to be stern, hard, and 
bitter ; then just as we are ready to cast our- 
selves away in despair and feel toward God as 
toward a ruler whom we can simply fear but 
never love, then comes some manifestation of 
God that sets our soul to singing. 

230 

Look up and thank God that all over the 
world, in its darkest as in its brightest places, 
men are casting out devils in the name of Christ. 
Never forbid them. Try to show them a richer 
and a better way, if you can, but be thankful for 
every work of Christ which through all their 
darkness He gives them power to do. 

231 

Make life as happy as you will. See every 
hour shine with joyousness. When the dark- 
ness comes — as it will surely — the light is not 
far off. You need not go far to seek it. You 
have it with you. The darker the night grows 
the brighter that light will shine. Only be sure 
you take it with you now. Be sure you take 
it — Him — Christ — the light of life. 



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232 

When I find my brother is worshiping the 
same Christ, although not recognizing that 
which is to me of the very substance of my 
Master's life. . . . I will seek out in that brother's 
creed everything that is in common and in 
harmony with mine. I will magnify and multi- 
ply that, and believe that so our souls shall both 
be guided by that light which both of us see, 
and at last we shall come to a truer understand- 
ing than either of us has to-day. 

233 

Only when a man tries to live the divine life 
can the divine Christ manifest Himself to him. 
Therefore the true way for you to find Christ is 
not to go groping in a thousand books. It is 
not for you to try evidences about a thousand 
things that people have believed of Him, but it 
is for you to undertake so great a life, so de- 
voted a life, so pure a life, so serviceable a life, 
that you cannot do it except by Christ, and then 
see whether Christ helps you. 

234 

Be done with saying what you don't believe, 
and find somewhere or other the truest, divinest 
thing to your soul that you do believe to-day and 
work that out. Be the noblest man that your 
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is, can make you to be. So, and so only, as you 
take the next step forward, as you stand strong 
where you are now, so only can you think the 
curtain will draw back and there will be re- 
vealed to you what lies beyond. 

235 

God set me here to be true and not false, 
brave and not cowardly. It must be therefore 
possible for me to bring out of these conditions 
something that shall be real food and sustenance 
and means of growth for this soul which He has 
set here and which He has not forgotten. 

236 

We can do nothing now to build the streets 
and gates, but by God's grace we can do much, 
very much, now to begin to become the men 
and women to whom heaven shall be possible. 

237 

You can help your fellow-men ; you must help 
them ; but the only way you can help them is 
by being the noblest and the best man that it is 
possible for you to be. 

238 

Take up your duty, whatever you can do to 
make the world more bright and good. Do 
whatever you can to help every struggling soul, 
to add strength to any staggering cause — the 



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poor sick man who is by you ; the poor wronged 
man whom you with your influence can vindi- 
cate ; the poor boy in your shop that you may 
set with new hope upon the road of life that is 
beginning already to look dark to him. You 
know your duty. No man ever looked for it and 
did not find it. 

239 

I believe in God with all my soul, because this 
world is inexplicable without Him and explica- 
ble with Him, and because Jesus Christ be- 
lieved in Him. 

240 

The Christ stands before us and says, " Come 
to me." You say, " Must I ? " and He answers, 
" You may." He will not even say, " You must." 
You may. And duty loses itself in privilege 
and escapes from its sins, fulfills its life, lays 
hold of its salvation, becomes eternal, begins to 
live an eternal life in the accepted and loving 
service of Christ. 

241 

God has not given us vast learning to solve 
all the problems, or unfailing wisdom to direct 
all the wanderings, of our brothers' lives ; but 
He has given to every one of us the power to 
be spiritual, and by our spirituality to lift and 
enlarge and enlighten the lives we touch. 



POETICAL SELECTIONS. 



Alfred Tennyson. 

Jean Ingelow. 

John Keble. 

William Cowper. 

Frances Ridley Havergal. 

William Wordsworth. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

Henry W. Longfellow. 



ALFRED TENNYSON. 



i 

Strong Son of God, Immortal Love ; 
Whom we, that have not seen Thy face, 
By faith, and faith alone, embrace, 

Believing when we cannot see. 

2 

But teach high thoughts, and amiable words, 
And courtliness, and the desire of fame, 
And love of truth, and all that makes a man. 

3 

Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, 
Whose loves in higher love endure 
What souls possess themselves so pure, 

Or is there blessedness like theirs ? 

4 

Ah ! when shall men's good 

Be each man's rule, and universal peace 

Lie like a shaft of light across the land ? 

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5 

Acting the law we live by, without fear, 
And because right is right, to follow right 
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. 

6 

Waiting to strive a happy strife, 
To war with falsehood to the knife, 
And not to lose the good of life. 

7 

I would the great world grew like thee, 
Who grewest not alone in power 
And knowledge, but year and hour 

In reverence, and in charity. 

8 

For she walked 
Wearing the light yoke of that Lord of love 
Who stilled the rolling waves of Galilee. 

9 

How best to help the slender store, 
How mend the dwellings of the poor ; 
How gain in life, as life advances ; 
Valor and charity more and more. 



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10 

Love took up the harp of Life, 
And smote on all the chords with might ; 
Smote the chord of self, that trembling 
Passed in music out of sight. 

11 

And so the Word had breath, and wrought 
With human hands, the creed of creeds, 
In loveliness of perfect deeds, 

More strong than all poetic thoughts. 

12 

He seems to hear a Heavenly Friend, 
And through thick veils to apprehend 
A labor working to an end. 

13 

It could not but be well, 

The slow sweet hours that bring in all things 
good; 

The slow sad hours that bring us all things ill. 
14 

He that shuts Love out, in turn shall be 
Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, 
Howling in outer darkness. 



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15 

I held it truth, with him who sings 
To one clear harp in divers tones, 
That men may rise on stepping-stones, 

Of their dead selves, to higher things. 

16 

Thou seemest human and divine, 
The highest, holiest manhood thou ; 
Our wills are ours, we know not how ; 

Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 

17 

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, 
These three along lead life to sovereign power. 

18 

Let knowledge grow from more to more, 
But more of reverence in us dwell ; 
That mind and soul according well, 

May make one music as before. 

19 

For so the whole round earth is every way 
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. 

20 

One equal temper of heroic hearts, 
Made weak by time and fate, but 
Strong in will ; to strive, to seek, to find, 
And not to yield. 



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21 

To be sure, the preacher says, 

Our sins should make us sad ; 
But mine is a time of peace, 
And there is grace to be had ; 
And God, not man, is the Judge of us all, when 

life shall cease ; 
And in His Book, the message is one of peace. 

22 

Who reverenced his conscience as his king ; 
Whose glory was redressing human wrongs ; 
Who spake no slander ; no, nor listened to it. 

23 

Ring in the valiant man and free, 
The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; 
Ring out the darkness of the land, 

Ring in the Christ that is to be. 

24 

But vaster, we are fools and slight ; 

We mock Thee when we do not fear ; 

But help Thy foolish ones to bear ; 
Help Thy vain worlds to bear Thy light. 

25 

To feel, altho' no tongue can prove 
That every cloud that spreads above 
And veileth love, itself is love. 



ALFRED TENNYSON. 



26 

Or, if you fear, cast all your cares on God ; 
That anchor holds. 

27 

Ring out false pride, in place and blood, 
The civic slander and the spite ; 
Ring in the love of truth and right, 

Ring in the common love of good. 

28 

A silent court of justice in his breast, 
Himself the judge and jury, and himself 
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. 

29 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 
Tis only noble to be good ; 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood. 



JEAN INGELOW. 



30 

What though unmarked the happy workman 
toil, 

And break unthanked of man the stubborn 
clod? 

It is enough, for sacred is the soil, 

Dear are the hills of God. 
For better in its place the lowliest bird 

Should sing aright to Him the lowliest 
song, 

Than that a seraph strayed should take the 
word 

And sing His glory wrong. 

3i 

This beauty is for me — 

A thing to love and learn. 

For me the bounding in of tides ; for me 

The lying bare of sands when they retreat ; 

The purple flush of calms, the sparkling glee 

When waves and sunshine meet. 

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JEAN INGE LOW. 



32 

Only to discover and to do 
With cheerful heart the work which God ap- 
points. 

I will trust in Him, 
That He can hold His own, and I will take 
His will, above the work He sendeth me, 
To be my chiefest good. 

33 

Are there no briars across thy pathway thrust ? 

Are there no thorns that compass it about ? 
Nor any stones that Thou wilt deign to trust 

My hands to gather out ? 

34 

They heard and straightway answered, " Even 
so !" 

For what abides that we should look on here ? 
The heavens are better than this earth below, 
They are of more account and far more dear ; 
We must look up, for all most sweet and fair, 
Most pure, most excellent, is garnered there. 

35 

Show me the path, I had forgotten Thee, 
When I was happy and free, 
Walking down here in the gladsome light of 
the sun. 

But now I come and mourn, O set my feet 
In the road to Thy blest seat, 
And for the rest, O God, " Thy will be done." 



JEAN INGEL OW. 3 1 



36 

Men must die — one dies by day, and near him 
moans his mother. 
They dig his grave, tread it down, and go 
from it full loth : 
And one dies about the midnight, and the wind 
moans, and no other, 
And the snow gives him burial — and God 
loves them both. 

37 

None the place ordained refuseth ; 

They are one, and they are all 
Living stones the Builder chooseth 

For the courses of His wall. 

38 

So take joy home, 

And make a place in thy great heart for her, 
And give her time to grow, and cherish 
her ; 

Then she will come and oft will sing to 
thee, 

When thou art working in the furrows. 
It is a comely fashion to be glad, 
Joy is the grace we say to God. 



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39 

Wait, nor against the half-learned lesson fret 
Nor chide at old belief as if it erred, 

Because thou cast not reconcile as yet 
The worker and the word. 

40 

He waits for us, while houseless things 
We beat about with bruised wings 
On the dark floods and water-springs, 
The ruined world, the desolate sea ; 
With open windows from the prime 
All night, all day, He waits sublime 
Until the fullness of the time 
Decreed from His eternity. 

4i 

Behold ! the house is dark. 

But there is brightness when the sons 

Of God are singing; and behold the heart 

Is troubled ; yet the nations walk in white ; 

They have forgotten how to weep. 

42 

And thou shalt come, 

And I will foster thee, 
And satisfy thy soul ; and thou shalt warm 
Thy trembling life beneath the smile of God. 



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43 

I know the King shall come to that new earth, 
And His feet stand again as once they stood. 
In His man's eyes will shine time's end and 
worth, 

The chiefest beauty and the chiefest good ; 
And all shall have the all, and in it bide, 
And every soul of man be satisfied. 

44 

He loves you ; He loathes your sins, but 
knowing that you are dust, He loves your souls. 
. . . Under His pitying glance the sin which 
was as crimson may become white as snow. 
... As yet, each new day is to you a new 
chance. The past lies behind you, it may be 
wasted and withered, but, like the Garden of 
Eden, before you lie sleeping in the sunshine 
the golden fields of the present, the rich har- 
vests of the future. 

45 

Consider it 
(This outer world we tread on) as a harp — 
A gracious instrument on whose fair strings 
We learn those airs we shall be set .0 play 
When mortal hours are ended. 



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46 

Open the door with shame, if ye have sinned ; 
If ye be sorry, open it with sighs ; 
Albeit the place be bare for poverty, 
And comfortless for lack of plenishing. 
Be not abashed for that, but open it, 
And take Him in that comes to sup with thee ; 
" Behold," He saith, " I stand at the door and 
knock." 

47 

He left his city, and went forth to teach 
Mankind, his peers, the hidden harmony 
That underlies God's discords, and to reach 
And touch the master-string that, like a sigh, 
Thrills in their souls, as if it would beseech 
Some hand to sound it, and to satisfy 
Its yearning for expression. 

48 

Under the shadow of a leafy bough 
That leaned toward a singing rivulet, 
One pure white stone, whereon, like crown or 
brow, 

The image of the vanished star was set : 
And this was graven on the pure white stone 
In golden letters—" While she lived she shone." 



JEAN INGELOW. 



85 



49 

O perfect love, that 'dureth long ! 

Dear growth, that shaded by the palms 
And breathed on by the angels' song, 

Blooms on in heaven's eternal calms ! 

50 

He will smile on thee ; 
One smile of His shall be enough to heal 
The wound of man's neglect ; and He will sigh, 
Pitying the trouble which that smile shall cure ; 
And He will speak — speak in the desolate night, 
In the dark night. 

5i 

We pray you set your pride 

In its proper place, and never be ashamed 

Of any noble calling. 

52 

Fair world ! these puzzled souls of ours grow 
weak 

With beating their bruised wings against the rim 
That bounds their utmost flying, when they seek 
The distant and the dim. 

53 

Man dwells apart, though not alone, 
He walks among his peers unread ; 

The best of thoughts which he hath known 
For lack of listeners are not said. 



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54 

A comfortable book for they who mourn, 
And good to raise the courage of the poor ; 

It lifts the veil and shows beyond the bourne 
Their Elder Brother, from His home secure, 

That for them desolate, He died to win, 

Repeating, " Come, ye blessed, enter in." 

55 

Good hast Thou made them — comforters right 
sweet ; 

Good Thou hast made the world, to mankind 
lent ; 

Good are Thy dropping clouds that feed the 
wheat ; 

Good are Thy stars above the firmament. 
Take to Thee, take, Thy worship, Thy renown ; 
The good which Thou hast made doth wear 
Thy crown. 

56 

Love thy Father, and no more 
His doings shall be strange, thou shalt not 
fret 

At any counsel, then, that He will send — 
No, nor rebel, albeit He have with thee 
Great reservations. 



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87 



57 

Art tired ? There is rest remaining. Hast thou 
sinned ? 

There is a sacrifice. Lift up thy head, 
The lovely world, and the over-world alike 
Ring with a song eternal, a happy rede, 
" Thy Father loves thee." 

58 

Learn that to love is the one way to know 
Of God or man : it is not love received 
That maketh man to know the inner life 
Of them that love him ; his own love bestowed 
Shall do it. 

59 

Hard is life for some, 
They would that they could soften it : 
And in the doing of their work they sigh 
As if it was their choice, and not their lot; 
And in the raising of their prayer to God 
They crave His kindness for the world He 
made 

Till they, at last, forget that He, not they, 
Is the true lover of man. 

60 

Is there such path already made to fit 
The measure of my foot ? It shall atone 

For much if I at length may light on it 
And know it for my own. 



JOHN KEBLE. 



61 

The world's a room of sickness,where each heart 
Knows its own anguish and unrest ; 

The truest wisdom then and noblest art 
Is he who skills of comfort best. 

Who, by the softest step and gentlest tone, 

Enfeebled spirits own, 

And love to raise the languid eye, 

When like an angel's wing they feel him fleeting 
by. 

62 

The storm is o'er ; and hark ! a still small voice 
Steals on the ear, to say Jehovah's choice 

Is ever the soft, meek, tender soul : 
By soft, meek ways He loves to draw 
The sinner, startled by His ways of awe ; 

Here is the Lord, and not where thunders roll. 

63 

Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, 
As more of heaven in each we see ; 
Some softening gleam of love and prayer, 
Shall dawn on every cross and care. 
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JOHN KEBLE. 



89 



64 

Oh ! may we all our lineage prove, 
Give and forgive, do good and love, 
By soft endearments, in kind strife, 
Lightening the load of daily life. 

65 

How on a rock they stand, 
Who watch His eye, and hold His guiding hand ! 
Not half so fixed amid her vassal hills, 
Rises the holy pile that Kedron's valley fills. 
66 

Behind the soft, bright summer cloud, 

That makes such haste to melt and die, 
Our wistful glance is oft allowed 

A glimpse of the unchanging sky : 
Let storm and darkness do their worst ; 

For the last dream the heart may ache ; 
The heart may ache, but may not burst ; 

Heaven will not leave thee or forsake. 

67 

The child-like faith that asks not sight, 

Waits not for wonder or for sign ; 
Believes, because it looks aright, 

Shall see things greater, things divine, 
Heaven to that gaze shall open wide, 

And brightest angels to and fro, 
On messages of love shall glide 

Twixt God above and Christ below. 



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JOHN KEBLE. 



68 

Live for to-day, to-morrow's light 
To-morrow's cares shall bring to sight. 
Go, sleep like closing flowers at night, 
And Heaven thy morn shall bless. 
69 

Or rather help us, Lord, to choose the good, 
To pray for naught, to seek to none but Thee, 

Nor by our daily bread mean common food. 
Nor say, from the world's evil set us free ; 

Teach us to love with Christ, our sole true bliss, 

Else though in Christ's own words we surely 
pray amiss. 

70 

But patience ! there may come a time 

When these dull ears shall scan aright 
Strains that outring earth's drowsy chime, 

As Heaven outshines the taper's light. 
These eyes that dazzled now and weak, 

At glancing motes in sunshine wink, 
Shall see the King's full glory break, 

Nor from the blissful vision shrink. 

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When sorrow all our heart would ask ; 

We need not shun our daily task, 

And hide ourselves for calm ; 

The herbs we seek to heal our woe, 
Familiar by our pathway grow, 

Our common air is balm. 



JOHN KEBLE. 



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72 

Thou art as much His care as if beside 

Nor men nor angel lived in heaven or earth, 

Thus sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide, 
To light up worlds, or make an insect's mirth. 

73 

But first, by many a stern and fiery blast, 

The worlds rude furnace must thy blood re- 
fine ; 

And many a gale of keenest woe be passed, 
Till every pulse beat true to airs divine. 

74 

Go ! to the world return, nor fear to cast 
Thy bread upon the waters, sure at last 

In joy to find it after many days. 
The work be thine ; the fruit thy children's part ; 
Choose to believe, not see ; sight tempts the 
heart 

From sober walking in true Gospel ways. 
75 

But we, as in a glass, espy 

The glory of His countenance; 
Not in a whirlwind hurrying by. 

The too presumptuous glance, 
But with mild radiance every hour, 

From our dear Saviour's face benign, 
Bent on us with transforming power, 

Till we, too faintly shine. 



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JOHN KEBLE. 



76 

There is a Book, who runs may read, 
Which heavenly truth imparts, 

And all the lore its scholars need, 
Pure eyes and Christian hearts. 

77 

Largely Thou gavest, gracious Lord ; 
Largely Thy gifts should be restored ; 
Freely Thou gavest, and Thy word 

Is " Freely give !" 
He only who forgets to hoard 

Has learned to live. 

78 

O Father ! not my will, but Thine be done ! 

So spake the Son. 
Be this our charm — mellowing earth's ruder 
noise — 

Of griefs and joys ; 
That we may cling forever to Thy breast 

In perfect rest. 

79 

There lies thy cross ; beneath it meekly bow ; 
It fits thy stature now ; 
Who scornful pass it with averted eye, 
Twill crush them by and by. 



JOHN KEBLE. 



93 



80 

Till death the weary spirit free, 

My God hath said, 11 Tis good for thee 

To walk by faith, and not by sight." 

Take it on trust a little while ; 
Soon shall thou read the mystery right 

In the full sunshine of His smile. 

81 

Thou knowest our bitterness — our joys are 
Thine ; 

No stranger Thou to all our wanderings wild, 
Nor could we bear to think how every line 

Of us, Thy darkened likeness and defiled, 
Stands in full sunshine of Thy piercing eye, 

But that Thou callest us Brethren : Sweet re- 
pose 

Is in that word ! The Lord, who dwells on high, 
Knows all, yet loves us better than He knows. 

82 

Then draw we nearer, day by day ; 

Each to his brethren, all to God. 
Let the world take us as she may, 

We must not change our road. 
The spring of the regenerate heart, 
The pulse, the glow of every part, 
Is the true love of Christ, our Lord, 
As man embraced, as God adored. 



94 



JOHN KEBLE. 



83 

0 Lord! my God! do Thou Thy holy will; 

I will lie still ! 

1 will not stir, lest I forsake Thine arm, 

And break the charm, 
Which lulls me— clinging to my Fathers breast- 
In perfect rest. 



84 

He, merciful and mild, 

As erst, beholding, loves his wayward child, 
When souls of highest birth 
Waste their impassioned might on dreams of 
earth, 

He opens Nature's Book, 
And on His glorious Gospel bids them look. 
Till, by such chords as rules the choirs above, 
Their lawless cries are tuned to hymns of per- 
fect love. 



85 

Abide with me from morn till eve, 
For without Thee I cannot live ; 
Abide with me when night is nigh, 
For without Thee I dare not die. 



JOHN KEBLE. 



95 



86 

The trivial round, the common task, 
Would furnish all we ought to ask ; 
Room to deny ourselves ; a road 
To bring us daily nearer God. 
Oh ! could we learn the sacrifice, 
What lights would all around us rise ; 
How would our hearts with wisdom talk 
Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. 

But chiefly ye should lift your gaze 
Above the world's uncertain haze, 
And look with calm, unwavering eye 
On the bright fields beyond the sky. 
Ye who your Lord's commission bear, 
His way of mercy to prepare. 
Angels He calls ye ; be your strife 
To lead on earth an angel's life. 
88 

He leads me where the waters glide, 

The waters soft and still, 
And homeward He will gently guide 

My wandering heart and will. 

89 

If on our daily task the mind 

Be set to hallow all we find, 

New treasures still, of countless price, 

God will provide for sacrifice. 



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go 

New every morning is the love 

Our wakening and uprising prove ; 

Through sleep and darkness safely brought, 

Restored to life and power and thought. 

New mercies each returning day 

Hover around us while we pray ; 

New perils past, new sins forgiven, 

New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. 



WILLIAM COWPER. 



91 

Love is our only business here ; 
Love simple, constant and sincere ; 
O blessed days ! Thy servants see ; 
Spent, O Lord ! in pleasing Thee. 

92 

Fix all your love on God alone, 
Choose but His will, and hate your own ; 
No fear shall in your path be found, 
The dreary waste shall bloom around, 
And you, through all your happy days, 
Shall bless His name and sing His praise. 

93 

Sometimes a light surprises 

The Christian while he sings ; 
It is the Lord who rises 

With healing on His wings. 
When comforts are declining, 

He grants the soul again 
A season of clear shining, 

To cheer it after rain. 

97 



93 



WILLIAM CO WPER. 



94 

Tis my happiness below 

Not to live without the cross ; 
But the Saviours power to know, 

Sanctifying every loss. 
Trials must and will befall, 

But with humble faith to see 
Love inscribed upon them all : 

This is happiness to me. 

95 

Have you no words ? Ah ! think again ; 
Words flow apace when you complain, 
And fill your fellow-creature's ear 
With the sad tale of all your care. 
Were half the breath thus vainly spent 
To Heaven in supplication sent, 
Your cheerful song would oftener be, 
Hear what the Lord has done for me. 

96 

Jesus, I love to trace, 

Throughout the sacred page, 
The footsteps of Thy grace, 

The same in every age. 
Oh ! grant that I may faithful be 
To clearer light vouchsafed to me. 



WILLIAM CO WPER. 99 



97 

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, 

But trust him for His grace ; 
Behind a frowning Providence 

He hides a smiling face. 
His purposes will ripen fast, 

Unfolding every hour ; 
The bud may have a bitter taste, 

But sweet will be the flower. 

98 

The just Creator condescends to write, 
In beams of unextinguishable light, 
His names of wisdom, goodness, power and 
love, 

On all that blooms below or shines above, 
To catch the wandering notice of mankind 
And teach the world, if not perversely blind, 
His gracious attributes, and prove the share 
His offspring holds in His paternal care. 

99 

Life is His gift, from whom whate'er life needs, 
With every good and perfect gift, proceeds ; 
Bestowed on man, like all that we partake, 
Royally, freely, for His bounty's sake. 
Transient, indeed, as is the fleeting hour, 
And yet the seed of an immortal flower, 
Designed in honor of His endless love 
To fill with fragrance His abode above. 



WILLIAM CO WPER. 



100 

He lives who lives to God alone, 

And all are dead beside ; 
For other source than God is none 

Whence life can be supplied. 
To live to God is to requite 

His love as best we may ; 
To make his precepts our delight, 

His promises our stay. 

IOI 

My soul ! rest happy in thy low estate, 
Nor hope, nor wish to be esteemed or great ; 
To take the impression of a will divine, 
Be that thy glory, and those riches thine. 
Confess Him righteous in His just decrees, 
Love what He loves, and let His pleasure 
please ; 

Die daily ; from the touch of sin recede ; 
Then thou hast crowned Him, and He reigns 
indeed. 

102 

God alike pervades 
And fills the world of traffic and of shades, 
And maybe feared amidst the busiest scenes, 
Or scorned where business never intervenes. 



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103 

None sends an arrow to the mark in view, 
Whose hand is feeble, or his aim untrue, 
For though, ere yet the shaft is on the wing, 
Or when it first forsakes the elastic string, 
It err but little from the intended line, 
It falls at last far wide of his design. 
So he who seeks a mansion in the sky 
Must watch his purpose with a steadfast eye ; 
That prize belongs to none but the sincere ; 
The least obliquity is fatal here. 

104 

The love of Thee flows just as much 
As that of ebbing self subdues ; 

Our hearts, their scantiness is such, 
Bear not the conflict of two rival tides. 

Both cannot govern in one soul ; 

Then let self-love be dispossessed ; 
The love of God deserves the whole, 

And will not dwell with so despised a guest. 

105 

To spread the page of Scripture, and compare 
Our conduct with the laws engraven there ; 
To measure all that passes in the breast, 
Faithfully, fairly, by that sacred test ; 
To dive into the secret deeps within, 
To spare no passion and no favorite sin. 



WILLIAM CO WPER. 



1 06 

Spirit of Charity ! dispense 

Thy grace to every heart ; 
Expel all other spirits thence ; 

Drive self from every part. 
Charity divine ! draw nigh, 
Break the chains in which we lie I 

107 

No works shall find acceptance in that day, 
When all disguises shall be rent away, 
That square not truly with the Scripture plan, 
Nor spring from love of God or love of man. 

108 

All scenes alike engaging prove 
To souls impressed with sacred love ! 
Where'er they dwell, they dwell in Thee ; 
In heaven, in earth, or on the sea. 

109 

To me remains nor place nor time ; 
My country is in every clime ; 
I can be calm and free from care, 
On any shore, since God is there. 

no 

Such as our motive is our aim must be, 
If this be servile, that can ne'er be free ; 
If self employ us, whatsoe'er is wrought, 
We glorify that self, not Him we ought. 



WILLIAM CO WPER. 



in 

Held within modest bounds, the tide of speech 
Pursues the course that truth and Nature teach ; 
No longer labors merely to produce 
The pomp of sound, or tinkle without use. 
Where'er it winds, the solitary stream, 
Sprightly and fresh, enriches every theme, 
While all the happy man possess'd before, 
The gift of nature, or the classic store, 
Is made subservient to the grand design 
For which Heaven formed the faculty divine. 

112 

The noblest minds their virtue prove 
By pity, sympathy, and love : 
These, these are feelings truly fine, 
And prove their owner half divine. 

ii3 

For He whose car the winds are, and the 
clouds 

The dust that waits upon His sultry march, 
When sin hath moved Him, and His wrath is 
hot, 

Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend 
Propitious in His chariot paved with love, 
And what His storms have blasted and defaced 
For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair. 



io4 



WILLIAM CO WPER. 



114 

He is the happy man whose life even now 
Shows somewhat of that happier life to come ; 
Who. doomed to an obscure but tranquil state, 
Is pleased with it, and were he free to choose, 
Would make that fate his choice ; whom peace 
the fruit 

Of virtue and whom virtue fruit of faith, 
Prepare for happiness. 

115 

His sphere, though humble, if that humble 
sphere 

Shine with his fair example, and, though small, 
His influence, if that influence all be spent 
In soothing sorrow and in quenching strife, 
In aiding helpless indigence, in works 
From which at least a grateful few derive 
Some taste of comfort in a world of woe. 

116 

The only amaranthine flower on earth 
Is virtue ; the only lasting treasure, truth. 
But what is truth ? Twas Pilate's question put 
To Truth itself that deigned him no reply. 
And wherefore ? Will not God impart His light 
To those that ask it ? Freely, 'tis His joy, 
His glory, and His nature to impart. 
But to the proud, uncandid, insincere, 
Or negligent inquirer not a spark. 



WILLIAM CO WPER. 



117 

Great offices will have great talents. 
God gives every man 
That virtue, temper, understanding, taste, 
That lifts him into life, and lets him fall 
Just in the niche he was ordained to fill. 

118 

God never meant that man should scale the 
heavens 

By strides of human wisdom. In His works, 
Though wondrous, He commands us in His 
Word 

To seek Him rather where His mercy shines. 
The mind, indeed, illumined from above, 
Views Him in all ; ascribes to the grand cause 
The grand effect ; acknowledges with joy 
His manner, and with rapture tastes His style. 

119 

The works of man inherit, as is just, 
Their author's frailty, and return to dust ; 
But truth divine forever stands secure ; 
Its head is guarded as its base is sure. 
Fixed in the rolling flood of endless years, 
The pillar of the eternal plan appears, 
The raving storm and dashing wave defies, 
Built by that Architect who built the skies. 



FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL. 



I20 

It is so sweet to trust Thy word alone ; 

I do not ask to see 
The unveiling of Thy purpose, or the shining 
Of future light on mysteries untwining, 
Thy promise-roll is all my own, 

Thy word is enough for me ! 

121 

I gave my life for thee, 

My precious blood I shed, 
That thou might ransomed be, 

And quickened from the dead. 
I gave my life for thee, 
What hast thou given for me ? 

122 

Thine eyes shall see the King ! the mighty One, 
The many-crowned, the light-enrobed; and 
He 

Shall bid thee share the kingdom He hath won ; 
Thine eyes shall see. 
106 



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123 

And let the morrow rest 

In His beloved hand ; 
His good is better than our best, 

As we shall understand. 
If, trusting Him, who faileth never, 
We rest on Him, to-day, forever. 

124 

Tempted and tried ! 

There is One at thy side, 

And never in vain shall His children confide ! 

He shall save and defend, 

For He loves to the end, 

Adorable Master and glorious Friend ! 

125 

Take my life and let it be 
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee. 
Take my moments and my days, 
Let them flow in endless praise. 

126 

Just to let Thy Father do 

What He will ; 
Just to know that He is true, 

And be still. 



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127 

Just to follow hour by hour 

As He leadeth ; 
Just to draw the moments' power 

As it needeth. 

128 

Just to trust Him, that is all ! 

Then the day will surely be 
Peaceful, whatsoe'er befall, 

Bright and blessed, calm and true. 

129 

Grave on thy heart each past red-letter day ; 
Forget not all the sunshine of the way, 
By which the Lord has led thee ; answered 
prayers, 

And joys unasked, strange blessings, lifted 
cares, 

Grand promise echoes ! Thus thy life shall be 
One record of His love and faithfulness to thee. 

130 

Take my hands, and let them move 
At the impulse of Thy love ; 
Take my feet, and let them be 
Swift and " beautiful " for Thee ; 
Take my intellect, and use 
Every power as Thou shalt choose. 



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131 

I am so glad ! It is such rest to know 
That Thou hast ordered and appointed all, 
And yet wilt order and appoint my lot, 
For, though so much I cannot understand, 
And would not choose, has been, and yet may 
be 

Thou choosest, man performest, Thou, my Lord. 
This is enough for me. 

132 

Nay, more ! We lean upon His breast ; 
There, there we find a point of perfect rest 
And glorious safety. There we see 
His thoughts to us-ward ; thoughts of peace 
That stoop in tenderest love ; that still increase 
With increase of our need ; that never change ; 
That never fail or falter or forget. 

133 

" When thou passest through the waters 

I will be with thee !" 
Sure and sweet and all-sufficient 
Shall His presence be. 

134 

Nor can the vain toil cease 
Till, in the shadowy maze of life, we meet 
One who can guide our aching, wayward feet 
To find Himself, our Way, our Life, our Peace ; 
In Him the long unrest is soothed and stilled, 
Our hearts are filled. 



FRAXCES RIDLEY HA VERGAL. 



135 

Thine eyes shall see ! Not on thyself depend 

God promises, the faithful, firm and free ; 
Ere they shall fail, earth, heaven itself, must end. 
Thine eyes shall see ! 

136 

For only work that is for God alone 
Hath an unceasing guerdon of delight ; 
A guerdon, unaffected by the sight, 

Of great success, nor by its loss o'erthrown. 

All else is vanity beneath the sun ; 

There may be joy in doing, but it palls when 
done. 

137 

But sure He will not cross out one sweet word 
But to inscribe a sweeter— but to grave 
One that will shine forever to His praise, 
And thus fulfill our deepest heart desire. 

138 

The hand that takes the crown must ache with 

many a cross ; 
Yet he who hath never a conflict hath never a 

victor's palm, 
And only the toilers know the sweetness of rest 

and calm. 



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in 



139 

0 strengthen me, that while I stand 
Firm on the Rock and strong in Thee, 

1 may stretch out a loving hand 
To wrestle with the troubled sea. 

140 

Dear is the work He gives in many a varied way ; 
Little enough in itself, yet something for every 
day; 

Something by pen for the distant, by hand or 

voice for the near, 
Whether to soothe or teach, whether to aid or 

to cheer. 

141 

Thou layest Thine hand on the fluttering heart 

And sayest " Be still !" 
The shadow and silence are only a part 

Of Thy sweet will ; 
Thy presence is with me, and where Thou art 

I fear no ill. 

142 

He hath said it ! so we know 
Nothing less can we receive. 

Oh ! that thankful love may glow 
While we restfully believe. 

Ask not how, but trust Him still ; 

Ask not when, but wait His will ; 

Simply on His word rely, 

God 14 shall " all your needs supply. 



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143 

"As thy day thy strength shall be !" 
This should be enough for thee ; 
He who knows thy frame will spare 
Burdens more than thou canst bear. 

144 

A little is lost, but more is won, 
As the sterner work of the day is done.' 
There is less of fancy, but more of truth, 
For we lose the mists with the dew of youth ; 

And a rose is born 
On many a spray which seemed only thorn. 

145 

No note of sorrow but shall melt 

In sweetest chords unguessed ; 
No labor all too pressing felt, 

But ends in quiet rest. 
No sigh but from the harps above, 

Soft echoing tones shall win ; 
No heart wound but the Lord of love 

Shall pour His comfort in. 
146 

How sweet to know the trials that we cannot 

comprehend 
Have each their own divinely purposed end. 

He traiheth so. 
For higher learning, ever onward reaching 
For fuller knowledge yet, and His own deeper 

teaching. 



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147 

Arise ! and leaning on His strength, 
Thy weakness shall be strong ; 

And He will teach thy heart at length 
A new perpetual song. 

148 

No need to prove a Saviour when once the heart 
believes, 

And the light of God's own glory in Jesus Christ 
receives ! 

No need for weary puzzle, with heart-lore strange 
and dim, 

When we find our dark enigmas are simply 
solved in Him ! 



WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 



149 

Men whose delight is where their duty leads 
Or fixes them ; whose least distinguished day 
Shines with some portion of that heavenly 
lustre 

Which makes the Sabbath lovely in the sight 
Of blessed angels, pitying human cares. 

150 

The primal duties shine aloft— like stars ; 
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, 
Are scattered at the feet of man— like flowers. 
The generous inclination, the just rule, 
Kind wishes, and good actions, and pure 
thoughts 

15* 

Vocal thanksgivings to the Eternal King ; 
Whose love, whose counsel, whose commands, 
have made 

Your very poorest rich in peace of thought 
And in good works. 
114 



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152 

Blest are they 

Whose sorrow rather is to suffer wrong 
Than to do wrong, although themselves have 
erred. 

153 

Oh ! let Thy word prevail, to take away 
The sting of human nature. Spread the law, 
As it is written in Thy holy book, 
Throughout all lands : let every nation hear 
The high behest, and every heart obey. 

154 

Trust me, that for the instructed time will 
come 

When they shall meet no object, but shall 
teach 

Some acceptable lesson to their minds 
Of human suffering, or of human joy. 

155 

For the man needs must feel 
The joy of that pure principle of love 
So deeply, that unsatisfied with aught 
Less pure and exquisite, he cannot choose 
But seek for objects of a kindred love 
In fellow-natures and a kindred joy. 



n6 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 



156 

Soul-cheering Light, most bountiful of things ! 
Guide of our way, mysterious Comforter. 

157 

I love to hear of those who, not contending 

Nor summoned to contend for virtue's prize, 

Miss not the humbler good at which they aim. 

Blest with a kindly faculty to blunt 

The edge of adverse circumstances, and turn 

Into their contraries the petty plagues 

And hindrances with which they stand beset. 

158 

Made . . . him, who is endowed 

With scantiest knowledge, master of all truth 

Which the salvation of his soul requires. 

159 

How high the re-ascent to sanctity ! 
Day by day a more divine and fairer way. 

160 

Be strong : be worthy of the grace 
Of God, and fill thy destined place. 
A soul, by force of sorrows high, 
Uplifted to the purest sky 
Of undisturbed humanity ! 



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161 

God for His service needeth not proud work 

of human skill ; 
They please Him best who labor most to do in 

peace His will. 
So let us strive to live ! and to our spirits will 

be given 

Such wings as, when our Saviour calls, shall 
bear us up to heaven. 

162 

Strange, then, nor less than monstrous, might 

be deemed 
The failure if the Almighty, to this point 
Liberal and undistinguishing, should hide 
The excellence of moral qualities 
From common understanding : leaving truth 
And virtue difficult, abstruse, and dark ; 
Hard to be won, and only by the few. Believe 

it not. 

163 

Both for the love of purity, and hope 
Which it affords, to such as do Thy will 
And persevere in good, that they shall rise 
To have a nearer view of Thee, in heaven. 



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WILLIAM WORDS WOR TH. 



164 

But Providence, that gives and takes away 
By His own law, is merciful and just: 
Time wants not power to soften all regrets, 
And prayer and thought can bring to worst 

distress 
Due resignation. 

165 

Now, by experience taught, he stands assured 
That God, who takes away, yet takes not half 
Of what He seems to take ; or gives it back, 
Not to our prayer, but far beyond our prayer; 
He gives it — the boon produce of a soil 
Which our endeavors have refused to till, 
And hope hath never watered. 

166 

May my life 

Express the image of a better time, 
More wise desires, and simpler manners : nurse 
My heart in genuine freedom ; all pure thoughts 
Be with me ; so shall Thy unfailing love 
Guide, and support, and cheer me to the end! 

167 

True dignity abides with him alone 
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, 
Can still suspect and still revere himself 
In lowliness of heart. 



WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 119 



168 

To worship in simplicity 
The invisible God, and take for guide 
The faith reformed and purified. 
169 

To be the awakener of divinest thoughts, 
Father and founder of exalted deeds. 
170 

Such as they are who in Thy presence stand, 
Unsullied, incorruptible, and drink 
Imperishable majesty streamed forth 
From Thy empyreal throne, the elect of earth 
Shall be divested at the appointed hour 
Of all dishonor, cleansed from mortal stain. 
171 

No mystery is here ; no special boon 
For high and not for low : for proudly graced, 
And not for meek of heart. The smoke ascends 
To heaven as lightly from the cottage hearth 
As from the haughty palace. 

172 

Where the voice that speaks 

In envy or detraction is not heard ; 

Which malice may not enter 

Where love and pity tenderly unite 

With resignation ; and no jarring tone 

Intrudes, the peaceful concert to disturb 

Of amity and gratitude. 



120 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 



173 

For though in whispers speaking the full heart 
Will find a vent ; and thought is praise to Him, 
Audible praise, to Thee, Omniscient mind, 
From whom all gifts descend, all blessings flow ! 

174 

All generous feelings flourish and rejoice; 

Forbearance, charity in deed and thought, 

And resolution competent to take 

Out of the bosom of simplicity 

All that her holy customs recommend. 

175 

Virtue thus 

Sets forth and magnifies herself ; thus feeds 
A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire 
From the encumbrances of mortal life. 

176 

Turn to private life 

And social neighborhood ; look we to ourselves 
A light of duty shines on every day 
For all. 

177 

So when his course is run, 

Some faithful eulogist may say 

He sought not praise, and praise did overlook 

His unobtrusive merit ; but his life, 

Sweet to himself, was exercised in good 

That shall survive his name and memory. 



WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 121 



178 

Stoop from your height, ye proud, and copy 
these ! 

Who in their noiseless dwelling-place can hear 
The voice of wisdom whispering Scripture 
texts 

For the mind's government, or temper's peace ; 
And recommending for their mutual need 
Forgiveness, patience, hope, and charity ! 

179 

All true glory rests, 

All praise, all safety, and all happiness, 

Upon the moral law. 



ELIZABETH B. BROWNING. 



1 80 

He lends not, but gives to the end, 
As He loves to the end. If it seem 

That He draws back a gift, comprehend 

Tis to add to it rather, amend, 
And finish it' up to your dream. 

181 

Methinks we do as fretful children do, 
Leaning their faces on the window-pane 
To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's 
stain, 

And shut the sky and landscape from their view : 

Be still and strong. 
Oh, man, my brother ! hold thy sobbing breath, 
And keep thy soul's large window pure from 
wrong, 

That so, as life's appointment issueth, 
Thy vision may be clear, to watch along 
The sunset consummation lights of death. 

122 



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182 

" There is no God," the foolish saith, 

But none, " there is no sorrow," 
And Nature oft the cry of faith 

In bitter need will borrow. 
Eyes which the preacher could not school 

By wayside graves are raised, 
And lips say, " God be pitiful," 

Who ne'er said 4< God be praised." 

183 

I hence appeal to the dear Christian Church, 
That we may do our Father's business in these 

temples mirk, 
Thus swift and steadfast, thus intent and strong ; 
While thus, apart from toil, our souls pursue 
Some high, calm, spheric tune, and prove our 

work 

The better for the sweetness of our song. 
184 

So others shall 
Take patience, labor, to their heart and hand, 
From thy hand, and thy heart, and thy brave 
cheer, 

And God's grace fructify through thee to all. 
The least flower, with a brimming cup, may 
stand 

And share its dewdrops with another near. 



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185 

Oh ! the little birds sang east, 

And the little birds sang west, 

And I smiled to think God's greatness 
Flowed round our incompleteness — 

'Round our restlessness — His rest. 
186 

A child kiss 

Set upon thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad ; 
A poor man served by thee shall make thee 
rich ; 

A sick man helped by thee shall make thee 
strong ; 

Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense 
Of service which thou renderest. 

187 

God is so good, He wears a fold 

Of heaven and earth across His face, 

Like secrets kept for love untold, 
But still I feel that His embrace 

Slides down by thrills through all things made, 
Through sight and sound of every place. 
188 

With constant prayers 
Fasten your souls so high, that constantly 
The smile of your heroic cheer may float 
Above all floods of earthly agonies : 
Purification being the joy of pain. 



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189 

Live and love, 
Doing both nobly, because lowlily ; 
Live and work strongly, because patiently, 
That it be well done, unrepented of, 
And not to loss. 

190 

Mountain blossoms, shining blossoms, 

Do ye teach us to be glad, 

When no summer can be had, 

Blooming in our inward bosoms ? 

Ye who God preserveth still, 

Set as lights upon a hill, 

Tokens to the wintry that beauty liveth still. 

191 

Learn more reverence, not for rank or wealth, 

That needs no learning, 

That comes quickly— quick as sin does — 

Ay, and culminates in sin — 

But for Adam's seed— man. Trust me : 

Tis a clay above your scorning 

With God's image stamped upon it, 

And God's kindly breath within. 



126 ELIZABETH B. BROWNING. 



192 

Two words, indeed, of praying we remember ; 

And at midnight's hour of harm, 
" Our Father," looking upward in the chamber. 

We say softly for a charm. 
We know no other words except " Our Father," 

And we think that, in some pause of angel's 
song, 

God may pluck them with the silence sweet to 
gather, 

And hold the both within His right hand, 
which is strong. 

193 

We will trust to God. The blank interstices 
Men take for ruins, He will build into 
With pillared marbles rare, or knit across 
With generous arches, till the fane 's complete. 

194 

Take courage to entrust your love 
To Him so named, who guards above 

Its ends, and shall fulfill ! 
Breaking the narrow prayers that may 
Befit your narrow hearts, away 

In His broad, loving will. 



ELIZABETH B. BROWNING. 



127 



195 

Hearken ! Hearken ! 

God speaketh in thy soul, 

Saying, O thou that movest 

With feeble steps across this earth of mine, 

To break beside the fount thy golden bowl, 

And spill its purple wine, 

Look up to heaven and see how like a scroll 

My right hand hath thy immortality 

In an eternal grasping. 

196 

Still the generations of the birds 
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and 
herds 

Serenely live while we are keeping strife 
With Heaven's true purpose in us, as a knife 
Against which we struggle. 

197 

There are nettles everywhere, 

But smooth green grasses are more common still ; 

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. 

198 

Look on me ! 
As I shall be uplifted on a cross 
In darkness of eclipse and anguish dread, 
So shall I lift up in my pierced hands, 
Not into dark, but light ; not unto death, 
But life — beyond the reach of guilt and grief — 
The whole creation. 



128 E LIZ ABE TH B. BR O WNING. 



199 

How to fill a breach 
With olive branches ; how to quench a He 
With truth, and smite a foe upon the cheek 
With Christ's most conquering kiss. 

200 

Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet, 
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, 
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so, 

Who are not missed by any that entreat. 

201 

Be ye to men as angels are to God : 
Servants in pleasure, singers of delight, 
Suggesters to his soul of higher things. 

202 

Free men freely work. 
Whoever fears God fears to sit at ease. 
After Adam, work was curse ; 
The natural creature labors, sweats, and frets ; 
But, after Christ, work turns to privilege. 

203 

Let us be content in work 

To do the thing we can, and not presume 

To fret because it's little. 



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204 

For us whatever's undergone, 
Thou knowest, wiliest what is done. 
Grief may be joy misunderstood : 
Only the Good discerns the good ; 
I trust Thee as the days go on. 

205 

So oft the doing of God's will 

Our foolish wills undoeth ! 
And yet what idle dream breaks ill 

Which morning light subdueth ; 
And who would murmur or misdoubt, 
When God's great sunrise finds him out ? 

206 

But God gives patience ; love learns strength 

And faith remembers promise ; 
And hope itself can smile at length 

On other hopes gone from us. 

207 

So look up, friends ! You who, indeed, 

Have possessed in your house a sweet piece 
Of the heaven men strive for, must need 
Be more earnest than others are, speed 
Where they later persist, where they cease. 



ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, 



208 

I praise Thee while my days go on ; 
I love Thee while my days go on ; 

Through dark and dearth, through fire and 
frost, 

With emptied arms and treasure lost ; 
I thank Thee while my days go on. 

209 

Be sure no earnest work 
Of any honest creature, howbeit weak, 
Imperfect, ill-adapted, fails so much, 
It is not gathered as a grain of sand 
To enlarge the sum of human action used 
For carrying out God's own end. 
210 

O brave poets ! keep back nothing, 
Nor mix falsehood with the whole ; 

Look up God-ward ; speak the truth 
In worthy song from earnest soul. 

Hold in high poetic duty 

Truest truth the fairest beauty ! 

211 

God keeps a niche 
In heaven to hold our idols ; and, albeit, 
He break them to our faces, and denied 
That our close kisses should impair their white, 
I know we shall behold them raised complete, 
The dust swept from their beauty— glorified. 
New Memnons singing in the great God-light. 



ELIZABETH B. BROWNING. .131 



212 

" Sleep soft, beloved !" we sometimes say, 
Who have no tune to charm away 

Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep ; 
But never doleful dream again 
Shall break the happy slumber, when 
" He giveth His beloved sleep." 

213 

Of all the thoughts of God that are 
Borne inward into souls afar 

Along the Psalmist's music deep, 
Now tell me if there any is, 
For gift or grace, surpassing this — 
" He giveth His beloved sleep." 



HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 



214 

Deliver not the tasks of might 
To weakness, neither hide the ray 
From those not blind, who wait for day, 
Though sitting girt with doubtful light. 

215 

No help but prayer, 

A breath that fleets beyond this iron world, 
And touches Him who made it. 

216 

O holy trust ! O endless sense of rest ! 

Like the beloved John 
To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, 

And thus to journey on ! 

217 

Will ye promise me here, to confirm your faith 

by your living, 
The heavenly faith of affection ! to hope and 

forgive and to suffer, 
Be what it may your condition, and walk before 

God in uprightness ? 

132 



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218 

Think of thy brother no ill, but throw a veil 
o'er his failings. 

Guide the erring aright ; for the good, the heav- 
enly Shepherd, 

Took the lost lamb in His arms, and bore it 
back to its mother. 

219 

Did we but use it as we ought, 
This world would school each wandering 
thought 

To its high state. 
Faith wings the soul beyond the sky 
Up to that better world on high, 

For which we wait. 

220 

Lives of great men oft remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And departing, leave behind us 
Footprints in the sands of time. 

221 

Let him not boast who puts his armor on, 
As he who puts it off, the battle done. 
Study yourselves, and most of all note well 
Wherein kind nature meant you to excel. 



134 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 



222 

Therefore love and believe, for works will follow 

spontaneous 
Even as day does the sun : Right from the Good 

is the offspring. 

223 

Faith is the sun of life, and her countenance 

shines like the Hebrew's, 
For she has looked upon God; the heaven, 

with its stable foundation, 
Draws she with chains down to earth. 

224 

All thoughts of ill ; all evil deeds, 

That have their root in thoughts of ill, 
Whatever hinders or impedes 

The action of the nobler will ; 
All these must first be trampled down 

Beneath our feet, if we would gain 
In the bright fields of fair renown 

The right of eminent domain. 

225 

Nothing useless is, or low ; 

Each thing in its place is best ; 
And what seems but idle show 

Strengthens and supports the rest. 



HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 135 



226 

Patience: accomplish thy labor; accomplish 
thy work of affection ; 

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient en- 
durance is god-like. 

Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the 
heart is made god-like, 

Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered 
more worthy of heaven. 

227 

Oh ! how skillful grows the hand 
That obeyeth Love's command ! 
It is the heart and not the brain 
That to the highest doth attain ; 
And he who follows Love's behest 
Far excelleth all the rest ! 

228 

Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing 
Like the compass in its brazen ring, 
Ever level and ever true 
To the toil and the task we have to do, 
We shall sail securely, and safely reach 
The Fortunate Isles. 



136 HENRY Wi LONGFELLOW. 



229 

O what a glory doth this world put on 

For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth 

Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks 

On duties well performed, and days well spent. 

He shall so hear the solemn hymn that Death 

Has lifted up for all, that he shall go 

To his last resting-place without a tear. 

230 

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; 

Amid these earthly damps 
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers 

May be heaven's distant lamps. 
She is not dead, the child of our affection, 

But gone unto that school 
Where she no longer needs our poor protection, 

And Christ Himself doth rule. 

231 

Therefore, child of mortality, love thou the mer- 
ciful Father 

Wish what the Holy One wishes, and not from 

fear, but affection ; 
Fear is the virtue of slaves, but the heart that 

loveth is willing. 



HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 137 



232 

To One alone my thoughts arise, 
The eternal truth, the good and wise, 

To Him I cry, 
Who shared our common lot, 
But the world comprehended not 

His deity. 

233 

Not enjoyment and not sorrow, 
Is our destined end or way ; 

But to act, that each to-morrow 
Find us farther than to-day. 



234 

Believe ye in God, in the Father who this world 
created; 

Him who redeemed it, the Son, and the Spirit 

where both are united. 
Will ye promise me here (a holy promise) to 

cherish 

God more than all things earthly,' and every 
man as a brother ? 

235 

All is of God ! If He but wave His hand 

The mists collect, the rain falls thick and loud 

Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, 
Lo ! He looks back from the departing cloud. 



138 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, 



236 

Lovest thou God as thou oughtest, then lovest 

thou also the brethren. 
One is the sun in heaven ; and one, only one, 

is Love also. 

237 

That in even savage bosoms 
There are longings, yearnings, strivings, 
For the good they comprehend not. 
That the feeble hands and helpless, 
Groping blindly in the darkness, 
Touch God's right hand in that darkness, 
And are lifted up and strengthened. 
238 

Blest are the poor before God ; upon purity and 

upon virtue 

Resteth the Christian faith ; she herself from on 

high is descended. 
Strong as a man and pure as a child is the sum 

of the doctrine. 

239 

In the elder days of art 

Builders wrought with greatest care, 
Each minute and unseen part 

For the gods see everywhere. 
Let us do our work as well, 

Both the unseen and the seen, 
Make the house where gods may dwell 

Beautiful, entire, and clean. 



HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 139 



240 

In the world's broad field of battle, 

In the bivouac of life, 
Be not like dumb, driven cattle, 

Be a hero in the strife. 

241 

Who said not to their Lord, as if afraid, 
" Here is Thy talent in a napkin laid," 
But labored in their sphere as men who live 
In the delight that work alone can give. 

242 

Standing on, what long we bore 

With shoulders bent, and downcast eyes, 

We may discern, unseen before, 
A path to higher destinies. 

243 

Enjoy the spring of love and youth, 
To some good angel leave the rest ; 

For time will teach thee soon the truth 
There are no birds in last year's nest. 



INDEX 

TO PROSE SELECTIONS. 



Abiding in Christ, 12, 83. 
Assurance, 81. 

Affliction, 127. (See Sorrow, Trial.) 

Brotherly Love, 6, 8, 11, 55, 116, 145. 

Belief, 17, 234, 239. 

Blessedness, ioi. 

busybodies, 121. 

Bible, The, 195, 208. 

Bible Help and Study, 208, 223. 

Business Life, 227. 

Character, Strength of, i. 
Consecration, 19, 21, 74, 167, 203, 218. 
Consideration, 34. 
Charity, 56, 63, 148, 169, 230. 
Conscience, 65, 132, 146. 
Christian Greatness, 65. 
Consolation, 71, 77. 
Chastening, 76. 
Christian Assurance, 8i e 
Contrition, 106, 162. 
Cowardice, iio. 
Cross, The, 114. 
Chivalry, 116. 
Comfort, 131. 
140 



INDEX. 



141 



Courage, 163, 215. 
Cares, 178. 
Conversion, 221. 
Casting out Devils, 230. 
Christ's Example, 5, 10, 99. 
Christ's Love, 10, 66. 
Communion with Christ, 15. 
Christ, Becoming like, 25. 
Christ, our High-priest, 48. 
Christ, the Rock, 87. 
Christ, the Saviour, 114. 
Christ, the Elder Brother, 165. 
Christ, our Friend, 187. 
Christ in us, 226. 
Christ, the Light, 231, 232 
Christ, Finding, 233. 

Dependence on God (See Trust), 30, 33, 82, 169 
173, 178. 

Daily Service (See Work), 64, 80, 108, 164, 174 
179. 

Deeds of Service, 80, 206. 
Death, 84, 161, 172, 184. 
Death of Self, 58. 

Duty, 118, 171, 174, 176, 177, 185, 191, 238. 

Earnestness, 47, 88, 166. 
Endurance, 73, 106, 120. 
Exaltation, 89. 
Eternal Life, 105, 107, 125. 
Example, 204, 213, 226. 



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INDEX. 



Fruit Bearing, 12. 
Friendship, 15, 52, 141. 
Following Christ, 20. 
Faith, 30, 68, 74, 115, 179, 234. 
Free Grace, 44. 
Fault-finding, 56. 
Frailty, Human, 66, no. 
Following God, 102, 107. 
Faithfulness, 118. 
Fear of God, 133, 229. 
Finding Christ, 233. 

Giving, 7, 14, 34. 

Good Deeds, 23, 80. 

Gifts for Service, 38. 

Gratitude, 41, 103. 

Good Works, 54. 

Greatness, 65, 152, 225. 

Gladness, 58, 132, 186. 

Glory, 206. 

God's Majesty, 32. 

God's Revelation, 33. 

God's Plan, 35, 112, 229, 235. 

God, the Jealous God, 45. 

God's Directing Hand, 53. 

God's Personal Care, 70. 

God's Sympathy, 75. 

God's Spirit, 81. 

God's Temple, 93. 

God, the Living, 94. 

God's Care, 70, 95, 119, 158, 176, 181, 190. 



INDEX, 



143 



God's Kingdom, 97. 

God is Love, 88, 111. 

God's Law, 115. 

God, the Father, 119, 156. 

Grace of God, 127. 

God, the Everlasting, 131. 

God's Garden, 153. 

God's Bounty, 155, 196. 

God, our Refuge, 157. 

God, Seeing, 168. 

God's Will, 171. 

God's Image, 194. 

Gift of God, 202, 205. 

Holiness, 4. 

Happiness, 4, 7, 31, 47, 86, 90, 101, 104, 202. 
Humility, 14, 39, 106, 130, 138, 150, 154, 193. 
Holy Living, 18, 23, 25, 37, 41, 42, 62, 78, 92, 99, 

134, 139, 146, 204, 215, 217, 227, 235, 236. 
Humble Service, 30. 

Helping Others, 117, 200, 217, 237, 238, 241. 

Human Frailty, 66. 

Heaven, 92, 172, 182, 183, 189, 236. 

Honor, 93. 

Heroism, True, 203. 

Heaven, Kingdom of, 182. 

Immortality, 22, 50. 

Influence, 24, 99, 204, 213, 237, 238, 241. 

Importance of Little Things, 59. 

Imitating Christ, 67. 

Indwelling of the Spirit, 175. 

Invitation, 240. 



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INDEX. 



Joy, 51, 58, 90, 130, 186. 
Judging Others, 122. 

Kindness, 4, 5, 6, 8, 34, 78. 
Kingdom of God, 18, 182. 
Knowledge, 199. 

Little Things, Importance of, 59. 

Love, Brotherly, 6, 8, 11, 55, 116, 145- 

Love of Christ, 10, 66. 

Love of God, ii, 83, 212, 222, 229. 

Love, 13, 17, 23, 197, 198, 201. 

Love, Spiritual, 144. 

Loving Much, 147. 

Liberality, 7, 14. 

Life Work, 13. 

Living in Earnest, 49. 

Living with Christ, 84. 

Living Service, 91. 

Living God, The, 94. 

Living with God, 214. 

Looking Upward, 125, 170. 

Majesty, God's, 32. 
Man's Chief End, 43. 
Manhood, True, 61, 235. 
Meekness, 152. 

Nobility of Character, 21, 24, 46, 92. 

Nature's Teachings, 96, 188. 
Nature of God, 221. 



INDEX, 



145 



Opportunity, 8, 69, 86. 
Obedience, 43, 47, 154. 

Purity, 2, 36, 126, 168. 
Perfect through Trials, 9. 
Peace, 16, 28, 174, 222. 
Pride, 32, 40, 58, 194. 
Providence, 95, 181. 
Patience, 100, 149, 192. 
Praise, 109, 141. 
Preparation, 134, 164. 
Prodigal Son, 156, 165. 
Penitence, 162. 
Prayer, 223, 228. 

Rest, 28, 71, 73, 125, 222. 
Resurrection, 50, 112, 162. 
Resignation, 72, 177. 
Rewards, 113. 
Redeemed, The, 183, 189. 
Riches, 198. 
Religion, 213, 220. 

Strength of Character, i. 
Spiritual Growth, i. 

Service, 14, 27, 30, 64, 91, 104, 123, 166, 191, 205, 

233, 240. 
Spirit, The, 15, 151, 175. 
Spiritual Life, 21. 
Salvation, Working out, 27, 44, 234. 
Steadfastness, 37. 



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INDEX. 



Self-examination, 57, 135, 149. 

Self-respect, 61, 194. 

Self, Death of, 87, 109, 145. 

Self-improvement, 98. 

Selfishness, 104. 

Self-government, 121, 124. 

Self-conflict, 128, 139, 142, 209. 

Sympathy, 75. 

Small Service, 86, 216. 

Success in Life, 120. 

Suffering, 180. 

Sorrow, 58, 186. 

Sin, the Barrier, 212. 

Truth, The, 3. 

Trials, 16, 71, 73, 76, 79, 85, 89, 105, 106, 178, 180. 
Temptation, 29, 60, 67, 77, 85, 129, 137, 138. 
Trust, 33, 62, 72, 102, 158, 173, 185, 190, 191, 198. 
True Manhood, 61, 235. 
True Greatness, 152. 

Unchangeableness, 119. 
Uprightness, 217. 

Virtues, Christian, 22, 26, 58, 108. 
Victory over Trial, 67, 136. 
Vanity, 150, 210. 

Work, Christian, 9. 

Work, Daily, 31, 37, 113, 160, 164, 174, 179- 
Working out Salvation, 27, 44, 234. 
Works of God, 207. 



INDEX. 



147 



Warfare, Christian, 124, 129, 136, 193, 209, 211, 
216. 

Wisdom, 140, 142, 150. 
Wealth, 141. 

Walking with Christ, 143, 214. 
Word, The, 151. 
Woman's Care, 159. 
Will of God, 171. 
Worship, 232. 



INDEX 

TO POETICAL SELECTIONS. 



Abiding in Christ, 85, 216, 242. 
Affliction, 141, 143, 154. 
Angels, The, 170. 
All Alike before God, 171. 
Ambition, 240. 

Bible, The, ii, 21, 54, 76, 96, 105. 
Brotherly Love, 63, 234, 236. 
Bible Study, 76, 105, 120. 
Bounty, 77, 99. 
Bearing the Cross, 79. 
Beholding the King, 122, 163. 
Believing, 148, 222, 234. 
Boasting, 221. 

Christ, i, 8, 23. 
Christ, our Helper, 12, 50. 
Christ, our Example, 16, 48. 
Christ, our Guide, 35, 129, 134, 156, 166. 
Christ, the King, 43, 122. 
Christ, the Saviour, 46, 121, 124, 148, 198. 
Christ, the Teacher, 47, 230. 
Christ, the Elder Brother, 54, 81. 
Christ, the Light, 75, 156. 
Christ, the Good Shepherd, 88, 218. 
Christ, our Friend, 124. 
148 



INDEX. 



149 



Christ, the Rock, 139. 
Christ, the Comforter, 145, 93. 
Christ, Abiding in Us, 46, 141. 
Consecration, 3, 32, 69, 125, 130, 217, 227, 234, 

239- 

Charity, 7, 9> 27, 53, 63, 74, 77, 106, 174, 224. 
Character, 17, 18, 20, 22, 150. 
Conscience, 22, 28, 167. 
Contrition, 35. 

Contentment, 68, 101, 114, 128, 149, 151, 203. 
Cross, The, 79, 94, 19 8 , 242. 
Consolation, 93, 230. 
Comforter, The, 156. 
Church, The, 183. 

Death, 36, 133, 212, 213, 229, 230. 
Duty, 60, 149, 150, 176, 203, 229. 
Dependence on God, 92, 109, 118, 147. 
Determination, 103. 
Divine Majesty, 118, 119. 
Dignity, True, 167. 
Doubt, 205. 

Endurance, 73, 226, 229. 
Earnest Living, 6, 144. 
Earnestness, 183, 189, 207, 209. 
Eternal Life, 198. 
Example, Christian, 220. 

Faith, i, 25, 26, 27, 29, 67, 74, 80, 94, 135, 141, 143, 

148, 168, 182, 192, 200, 206, 219, 223. 
Following Christ, 8. 



INDEX, 



Forgiveness, 21, 44, 57, 218. 
Fearing God, 24, 102, 202. 
Free Gifts, 77. 
Faithfulness, 96. 

Frailty, Human, 24, 52, 53, 118, 119, 181, 185. 
Freedom, True, 166, 202. 

Golden Rule, 4. 

God's Loving Purpose, 12, 13, 31, 37. 

God's Care, 19, 26, 36, 42, 72, 90, 98, 157, 187, 190, 

194, 212, 238. 
God's Works, 30, 31, 37, 55. 
God's Will, 32, 127. 

God's Love, 36, 49, 55, 57, 58, 59, 90, 104, 132, 
180. 

God's Providence, 40, 97, 142, 195. 

God's Kindness, 44. 

God's Hidden Purposes, 39, 40. 

God's Purposes, 47, 60, 97, 120, 126, 131, 146, 193, 

196, 204, 205, 209, 211, 225. 
God's Directing Hand, 60. 
God's Mercies, 90, 113, 123, 129, 132. 
God's Promises, 120, 135, 143. 
God's Presence, 124, 133. 
God's Omniscience, 131, 173. 
God's Tenderness, 143. 
God's Law, 153, 179. 
God's Power, 185. 
God's Goodness, 187. 
God's Image, 191. 
God's Temple, 239. 
God The Creator, 98. 



INDEX. 



151 



God the Father, 56, 126, 192. 
God the King, 151. 
Gladness, 38. 

Godly Living, 48, 152 (see also " Holy Living"). 

Godliness, 63. 

Grace, 96, 160, 184. 

Gifts of Speech, 113. 

Gifts for Service, 117, 241. 

Gift, the Great, 121. 

Gratitude, 129. 

Good Deeds, 163. 

God, 162, 168, 182. 

Holy Living, 5, 7, «, 6 4, 74, 86, 87, 125, 149, x 52, 

159, 166, 177, 178, 217, 226, 228, 243. 
High Motives, 6. 

Helping Others, 9, 22, 47, 184, 201, 214. 
Hope, 26, 70, 206. 

Humility, 33, 51, 62, 79, 151, 157, l6l > l62 > l6 ?> 

171, 177, 178, 203, 238. 
Heaven, 34, 41, 45, 49, 54, 66, 67, 68, 70, 161, 163, 

170, 211, 219, 228. 
Happiness, 94, 114, 179- 
Human Life, 99. 
Hopefulness, 144. 
Help in Trial, 164, 165. 

Influence, Personal, 2, 115, 169, 184, 201, 207. 
Image of God, 191. 

Judgment, 14, 21, 107, 170. 
Justice, 28. 
Joy, 38, 154, 155. 



152 



INDEX. 



Kindness, 23, 29, 64, 150, 172, 174, 186. 
Knocking, 46. 

Love, 10, 14, 25, 36, 81, 82, 91, 92, 106, 108, 155, 

189, 199, 206, 222, 227, 231, 236. 
Loving Kindness, 44. 
Loving Service, 9, 33. 
Love of Fellow-men, 4, 48, 58, 186, 191. 
Love of Christ, 82. 
Love of God, 194, 208, 237. 
Looking Upward, 34, 87, 159, 195, 207, 210, 243. 
Living To-day, 68. 
Living in Christ, 75. 
Living to God, 100. 
Life Eternal, 198. 
Leaning on Jesus, 132, 200. 

-Manliness, 2, 157, 238, 240. 
Manhood, True, 17, 20, 22, 23. 
Meekness, 62, 71. 

Mercies, God's, 113, 123, 129, 164, 165, 173, 180. 
Majesty Divine, 118. 

Nobility of Character, 17, 18, 20, 22, 29, 150, 

160, 169. 
Noble Purposes, 174. 
Noble Aims, 161, 210. 
Nature's Praise, 31. 
Nature's Revelation, 84, 190, 196. 
No Respecter of Persons, 171. 

Omnipotence, 40, 235. 
Omniscience, 81, 131. 
Opportunity, 219, 221. 



INDEX. 



153 



Personal Influence, 2, 

Peace, 4, 21, 42, 128, 132, 138, 172, 175, 185, 199, 207. 
Purpose of God, 12, 13, 37. 
Providence, 12, 31, 37, 40, 164, 165, j8o. 
Prayer, 19, 24, 69, 95, 129, 164, 165, 188, 192, 194, 

215, 232. 
Pride, 27, 51, 178, 221. 

Praise of God, 30, 55, 129, 151, 173, 182, 208. 
Penitence, 35. 

Patience, 39, 181, 189, 206, 226. 
Preparation, 99, 233. 
Purity, 150, 163, 166, 238. 
Perseverance, 207, 226, 228. 

Reverence, 18, 191. 
Righteousness, 27. 

Resignation, 32, 35, 56, 59, 71, 78, 80, 89, 164, 

196, 231. 
Repentance, 46. 

Rest, 57, 78, 132, 138, 145, 185, 212, 213. 
Reward of Godly Striving, 136, 138. 
Reliance, 139. 

Service, 9, 91, 92, 101, 117, 140, 161, 186, 219, 227, 
241. 

Service, Seeking His, i, 33, 231. 
Self-denial, 10, 86. 

Self, Death of, 10, 15, 17, 106, no, 125, 130. 
Self-conflict, 104, 106, no. 
Sorrow, 13, 35, 41, 50, 54, 61, 71, 145, 182, 208, 233. 
Submission, 13, 16, 78, 83, 126, 130, 131, 231. 
Sympathy, 61. 



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INDEX. 



Spirit, The, 62. 
Security, 65. 
Sacrifice, 86, 89, 125. 
Shepherd, The Good, 88. 
Song, Christian, 93. 
Supplication, 95. 
Steadfastness, 103. 
Speech, The Gift of, hi. 
Seeking Christ, 134. 
Salvation, 158, 162. 
Strength in Trial, 181. 

Truth, 2, 13, 116, 119, 144, 158, 162, 199, 210, 232. 
True Manhood, 6, 17, 20, 22, 23. 
True Greatness, 7. 
True Freedom, 166. 
True Dignity, 166. 

Trial, 12, 13, 20, 50, 59, 73, 94, 137, 138, 141, 146, 

181, 197, 208, 230. 
Trust in God, 25, 32, 39, 56, 65, 80, 85, 95, 109, 

120, 123, 127, 128, 135, 142, 147, 154, 181, 187, 

193, 194, 200, 204, 211, 216. 
Talents for Service, 117. 
To-morrow, 123. 
Temptation, 124. 
Thankfulness, 129, 142, 208. 
Tribulation, 137, 138, 143. 
Trinity, The, 234. 
Temple, God's, 239. 

Unchangeableness, 119. 
Uprightness, 217. 



INDEX. 



155 



Victory over Trial, 20, 25, 41, 133, 157, 160, 188. 
Virtues, Christian, 112. 
Virtue, 116, 175, 238. 

Wisdom, 561. 

Word, The, ii, 120, 153, 158, 178. 

Works of God, 30, 31. 

Working with God, 136, 183, 233. 

Work, Daily, 45, 74, 140, 183, 189, 202, 214, 222, 

240, 241. 
Will of God, 32, 127, 163. 
What wouldst Thou have me to do? 33. 
Worship, 102, 168. 
Watching, 103. 
Watchfulness, 103, 221. 
Word, The, the Guide, 105. 
Walking with Christ, 220. 
Walking with God, 223. 



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